Is there a way to catch the back button event in javascript?

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Use the hashchange event:

window.addEventListener("hashchange", function(e) {
  // ...
})

If you need to support older browsers, check out the hashChange Event section in Modernizr’s HTML5 Cross Browser Polyfills wiki page.

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