history.back() doesn't work with HTML5 history API as expected in Chrome
In Chrome, history.back / history.forward / history.go are not synchronized with history.state. I encountered this issue a while back while working on PDF.js, and reported it at Chromium's issue tracker: https://crbug.com/510026. Nothing has come out of it though.
A work-around is to use the popstate event to detect when the navigation finishes:
history.replaceState({path: '/home'}, '', '?page=home');history.pushState({path: '/second'}, '', '?page=second');console.log(history.state.path); // says "/second"addEventListener('popstate', function(event) { console.log(history.state.path); // says "/home" // You can also use console.log(event.state);}, {once: true});history.back(); // Will asynchronously change history.stateNote: addEventListener with the once parameter is only supported as of Chrome 55 - before that you have to call removeEventListener in the listener if you want a listener to run once, like this:
addEventListener('popstate', function listener(event) { removeEventListener('popstate', listener); console.log(history.state.path); // says "/home" // You can also use console.log(event.state);});