gun.back(amount)

Move up to the parent context on the chain.

Every time a new chain is created, a reference to the old context is kept to go back to.

Amount

The number of times you want to go back up the chain. -1 or Infinity will take you to the root.

Examples

Moving to a parent context

gun.get('users')
  /* now change the context to alice */
  .get('alice')
  .put(data)
  /* go back up the chain once, to 'users' */
  .back().map(...)

Another example

gun.get('player').path('game.score').back(1)
// is the same as...
gun.get('player').path('game')

Chain context

The context will always be different, returning you to the

gun.get('key').get('property')
/* is not the same as */
gun.get('key').get('property').back()