NavigationTransition: navigationType property

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The navigationType read-only property of the NavigationTransition interface returns the type of the ongoing navigation.

Value

An enumerated value representing the type of ongoing navigation.

The possible values are:

push: A new location is navigated to, causing a new entry to be pushed onto the history list.
reload: The Navigation.currentEntry is reloaded.
replace: The Navigation.currentEntry is replaced with a new history entry. This new entry will reuse the same key, but be assigned a different id.
traverse: The browser navigates from one existing history entry to another existing history entry.

console.log(navigation.transition.navigationType);

Specification
HTML # dom-navigationtransition-navigationtype-dev

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