Please help me clear my history

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$ionicHistory.clearHistory and .clearCache doesn’t work. I have a logout button where I want to clear history and go back to login. Unfortunately the history is not cleared so there is still a back button for dashboard. (It doesn’t actually go to dashboard because the credentials are cleared, but the button is still there and it flashes briefly when I press it) I don’t want that back button. How can I stop that. If I log out from any page and go to login I don’t want a back button. Here is what my logout button does:

$scope.doLogout = function() {
$ionicHistory.clearCache();
$ionicHistory.clearHistory();
AuthService.logout();
loadUserData();
$state.go(‘login’);
$ionicHistory.clearCache();
$ionicHistory.clearHistory();
};

2

u can use

 $ionicHistory.nextViewOptions({
            disableAnimate: true,
            disableBack: true,
            historyRoot: true
        })
3

Also worth pointing out that by going to another state from your origin state you are adding history.

4

Thanks. this works.

Also worth pointing out that by going to another state from your origin state you are adding history.

Ok I (think I) understand that. So if I go to login state I just add another entry to the history, and I don’t actually go back. There is no $state.goBack() or goToRoot(). I was trying to avoid creating a state and just go to the root.

If I understand correctly history here, works differently, its… browser-like. In a native app the back button goes back in the navigation hierarchy up to the parent view. You couldn’t go to a child view using a back button. At least not with a default one.

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Yeah, history works as a stack, however if the view you are going back to is the previous state then it doesn’t add it onto the stack…

It gets complicated to explain without diagrams ha