In my AngularJS application I'm redirecting the route to a specific page when the user isn't logged. To do that I'm using a variable on $rootScope.

Now I would like to prevent the browser's back button when the user is logged. I would like to redirect it to a specific page (the registration view). The problem is I don't know if there's a back button event.

My code is:

 angular.module('myApp',[...]

//Route configurations

}])

.run(function($rootScope, $location){

               $rootScope.$on('$routeChangeStart', function(event, next, current){

                   if(!$rootScope.loggedUser) { 

                       $location.path('/register');

                   }

               });

               $rootScope.$on('$locationChangeStart', function(event, next, current){

                   console.log(Current:  + current);

                   console.log(Next:  + next);

               });

           });

So on $locationChangeStart I would write a pseudocode like:

if (event == backButton){

     $location.path('/register');

}

Is it possible?

A naive solution would be writing a function that checks if next and current are in the wrong order, detecting if the user is going back.

There are other solutions? I'm approaching the problem in a wrong way?