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I need to load some data when a route loads as the result of a back button press using NextJS. How can I tell if a route / page was loaded as a result of the user pressing the back button on the browser?

Mr. Robot
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The window.history object provided by the browser won't tell you if someone used the back button. It and next/router and next/link are used for manipulating paths, not necessarily tracking history. For that, you probably need to manually track the user on your site, perhaps using cookies, window.localStorage, or something server-side.

The events exposed by next/router (such as all the routeChange* and beforeHistoryChange events) might be useful.

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