How to implement history.back() in angular.js

Question

I have directive which is site header with back button and I want on click to go back to the previous page. How do I do it in the angular way?

I have tried:

Answer 1

For me, my problem was I needed to navigate back and then transition to another state. So using $window.history.back() didn't work because for some reason the transition happened before history.back() occured so I had to wrap my transition in a timeout function like so.

$window.history.back();
setTimeout(function() {
  $state.transitionTo("tab.jobs"); }, 100);

This fixed my issue.