How to go back last page

Actually you can take advantage of the built-in Location service, which owns a "Back" API.

Here (in TypeScript):

import {Component} from '@angular/core';
import {Location} from '@angular/common';

@Component({
  // component's declarations here
})
class SomeComponent {

  constructor(private _location: Location) 
  {}

  backClicked() {
    this._location.back();
  }
}

Edit: As mentioned by @charith.arumapperuma Location should be imported from @angular/common so the import {Location} from '@angular/common'; line is important.

In the final version of Angular 2.x / 4.x - here's the docs https://angular.io/api/common/Location

/* typescript */

import { Location } from '@angular/common';
// import stuff here

@Component({
// declare component here
})
export class MyComponent {

  // inject location into component constructor
  constructor(private location: Location) { }

  cancel() {
    this.location.back(); // <-- go back to previous location on cancel
  }
}

BACK

You can put this into a directive, that can be attached to any clickable element:

import { Directive, HostListener } from '@angular/core';
import { Location } from '@angular/common';

@Directive({
    selector: '[backButton]'
})
export class BackButtonDirective {
    constructor(private location: Location) { }

    @HostListener('click')
    onClick() {
        this.location.back();
    }
}

Usage:

<button backButton>BACK</button>

Tested with Angular 5.2.9

If you use an anchor instead of a button you must make it a passive link with href="javascript:void(0)" to make Angular Location work.

app.component.ts

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { Location } from '@angular/common';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: [ './app.component.css' ]
})
export class AppComponent {

  constructor( private location: Location ) { 
  }

  goBack() {
    // window.history.back();
    this.location.back();

    console.log( 'goBack()...' );
  }
}

app.component.html

<!-- anchor must be a passive link -->
<a href="javascript:void(0)" (click)="goBack()">
  <-Back
</a>

url: /list?page=1

<a [routerLink]="['edit',id]" [preserveQueryParams]="true"></a>

ref: https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/guide/router.html#!#link-parameters-array

im using this way:

import { Location } from '@angular/common'
import { Component, Input } from '@angular/core'

@Component({
    selector: 'Back_page',
    template: `<button  (click)="onBack()">Back</button>`,
})
export class BackPageComponent {
  constructor(private location: Location) { }

  onBack() {
    this.location.back();// <-- go back to previous location
  }
}

Please make sure you explicitly import if you are using latest Angular/TypeScript

import { Location } from '@angular/common';

and

 onCancel() {
    this.location.back();
  }

I came up with this, you can also check if there is a previous page. Make sure to use the service in your appComponent.

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Location } from '@angular/common';
import { NavigationEnd, Router } from '@angular/router';

interface HistoryData {
  previousPage: string | null,
  currentPage: string | null,
}

@Injectable({ providedIn: 'root' })
export class GoBackService {

  private historyData: HistoryData = { previousPage: null, currentPage: null };

  constructor(private router: Router, private location: Location) {
    this.router.events.subscribe((event) => {
      if (event instanceof NavigationEnd) {
        this.historyData.previousPage = this.historyData.currentPage;
        this.historyData.currentPage = event.urlAfterRedirects;
      }
    });
  }

  public goBack(): void {
    if (this.historyData.previousPage) this.location.back();
  }

  public canGoBack(): boolean {
    return Boolean(this.historyData.previousPage);
  }

}

2022 Utilize your app routing - more of an "angular approach" rather than accessing the browser's location object for navigation history. Think of why you need the user to go 'back', and what 'back' means in the broader context of your application and its routes.

for example, returning to a parent route from its child

  this.router.navigate(['..'], {relativeTo: this.route});

You can also read about previous navigation

previousNavigation : The previously successful Navigation object. Only one previous navigation is available, therefore this previous Navigation object has a null value for its own previousNavigation.

Simply use Location , An Angular service that applications can use to interact with a browser's URL.

Import it :

import { Location } from '@angular/common';

Inject it :

constructor(private location: Location) { }

Simply Use it :

goBack() {
    this.location.back(); // Navigates back in the platform's history
}

yes you can do it. write this code on your typescript component and enjoy!

import { Location } from '@angular/common'
import { Component, Input } from '@angular/core'

@Component({
    selector: 'return_page',
    template: `<button mat-button (click)="onReturn()">Back</button>`,
})
export class ReturnPageComponent {
  constructor(private location: Location) { }

  onReturn() {
    this.location.back();
  }
}

Also you can use this service with fallback feature in case history is empty

url-back.service.ts

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Location } from '@angular/common';

import { Router } from '@angular/router';

const EMPTY_HISTORY_LENGTH = 2;

/**
 * This service helps to Navigate back to the prev page, and if no prev page,
 * will redirect to the fallback url.
 */
@Injectable()
export class UrlBackService {
  constructor(private router: Router, private location: Location) {}

  /**
   * This method will back you to the previous page,
   * if no previous page exists, will redirect you to the fallback url.
   * @param href - url, if tryNativeFirst is provided, this is fallback url
   * @param tryNativeFirst - try to go back natively using browser history state.
   */
  back(href: string, tryNativeFirst: boolean = false) {
    if (tryNativeFirst) {
      if (history.length === EMPTY_HISTORY_LENGTH) {
        this.router.navigate(UrlBackService.urlToArray(href));
      } else {
        this.location.back();
      }
    } else {
      this.router.navigate(UrlBackService.urlToArray(href));
    }
  }

  /**
   * In case that router.navigate method tries to escape all '/' in the string,
   * was decided to split string to array, and if URL starts or ends with slash - remove them, eg:
   * /my/url will be split to ['', 'my', 'url'], so we need to remove empty spaces use filter function.
   * @param href
   * @private
   */
  private static urlToArray(href: string) {
    return href.split('/').filter((notEmpty) => notEmpty);
  }
}

url-back.service.spec.ts

import { TestBed } from '@angular/core/testing';

import { UrlBackService } from './url-back.service';
import { Router } from '@angular/router';
import { Location } from '@angular/common';
import { RouterTestingModule } from '@angular/router/testing';

describe('UrlBackService', () => {
  let service: UrlBackService;
  let router: Router;
  let location: Location;

  beforeEach(() => {
    TestBed.configureTestingModule({
      imports: [RouterTestingModule],
      providers: [UrlBackService],
    });
    service = TestBed.inject(UrlBackService);
    router = TestBed.inject(Router);
    location = TestBed.inject(Location);
  });

  it('should be created', () => {
    expect(service).toBeTruthy();
  });

  it('no meter what history state is, it should be redirected to the /my/url', () => {
    spyOn(router, 'navigate');
    service.back('/my/url');
    expect(router.navigate).toHaveBeenCalledWith(['my', 'url']);
  });

  it('in case history is empty push to /my/url', () => {
    spyOn(router, 'navigate');
    service.back('/my/url', true);
    expect(router.navigate).toHaveBeenCalledWith(['my', 'url']);
  });

  it('in case history is NOT empty push to url1', () => {
    spyOn(location, 'back');
    window.history.pushState(null, '', 'url1');

    service.back('/my/url', true);
    expect(location.back).toHaveBeenCalled();
  });
});

try routerLink="../LASTPAGE"