Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript

Setting up the application and its routing

Now that we have the base code set up, let's list the steps for us to build an app that will enable us to create a custom Back button in a browser:

1. Creating states for the application.
2. Recording when the state of the application changes.
3. Detecting a click on our custom Back button.
4. Updating the list of the states that are being tracked.

Let's quickly add a few states to the application, which are also known as routes in Angular. All SPA frameworks have some form of routing module, which you can use to set up a few routes for your application.

Once we have the routes and the routing set up, we will end up with a directory structure, as follows:

Directory structure after adding routes

Now let's ...