Nuxt - How to find the previous route?

Question

I am able to use this.$router.go(-1) to redirect a user to the previous route. However, I am not able to understand how I get get the information about the previous route before redirecting.

Basically, by first reading what the previous route was, I want to make sure that the previous route was from the same domain and only then redirect to it, otherwise do something else.

Answer 1

In your page you can add asyncData hook which have access to context object with from property:

asyncData({ from }) {
  console.log(from);
}

Answer 2

in nuxt static methods where you have access to nuxt context ex: asyncData or middlewares :

asyncData({from}){
    // do something with from
}

but if you want to get the prev route in vue instance you can use

this.$nuxt.context.from

also, remember that from can be undefined if there wasn't any prev page in the browser history