Quick Tip: Navigating in Ionic without History

before i start, just a quick note. what i’m describing here is clearly documented , but as i keep reminding myself i’ve yet to read 100% of the ionic docs and i really need to. a big thank you goes out to @breakingthings on the ionic worldwide slack channel for letting me know about this. so here’s the question. imagine you have an ionic app with a login screen:

after logging in, you want to automatically move the user to a new state:

$state.go('home');

but when you do, you end up with this in your header:

that link back to the login view comes from how ionic handles view history and the header. most of the time you probably want that, but in this case, i definitely do not want it. luckily it is rather simple to fix using $ionichistory :

$ionichistory.nextviewoptions({
    disableback: true
});
$state.go('home');

yep, that’s it. nice and simple. and just in case it isn’t clear, this modification only impacts the next change.