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Discussion on: Is there any way to detect if a user "can go back" in PWAs (desktop PWA most specifically)

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Yaser Al-Najjar

I'm not sure this feature would be really helpful since I'm using the PWA in my phone (Android) and I never feel the need to use the back button (and of course, same goes to the desktop website).

If I wanna go back I just press the DEV logo, and that's pretty convenient!

The great part about DEV is that it has a non-dense site map... just the home page which leads to different places (articles, settings, notifications, DMs).

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Fernando B 🚀

Back button does work in Android PWA. Just a habit on Android to use back button lol, is a lot closer to my thumb than the dev button.