Angular router '**' wildcard as a catch-all with child routes? Using latest 2.4.0 and Router 3.4.1

Question

I've been experimenting with dozens of configurations trying to get this to work but cannot figure this out.

Given url as follows:

• https://domain.com Dashboard
• https://domain.com/profile Profile
• https://domain.com/anything ...catch all with children.
  • https://domain.com/anything/edit
• https://domain.com/otherthing
  • https://domain.com/otherthing/edit

anything and otherthing can literally be anything.

A route configuration I hoped would work but ends up taking over the defined routes where https://domain.com/profile would trigger the catchall ('**'), which seems very odd since to my understanding, the catchall should only fire or catch routes that are not defined above it:

Where app.module has this:

export const routes = [
  {
    path: '',
    loadChildren: 'app/dashboard/dashboard.module'
  },
  {
    path: 'profile',
    loadChildren: 'app/profile/profile.module'
  },
  {
    path: '**',
    loadChildren: 'app/anything/anything.module'
  }
];

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    RouterModule.forRoot(routes)
  ],
  declarations: [AppComponent]
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule {}

Where anything.module has this:

const routes = [
  {
    path: ':id',  // hoping to pick up the wildcard as param this way
    component: AnyComponent,
    children: [
      {
        path: 'edit',
        component: EditComponent
      }
    ]
  }
];

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    CommonModule,
    RouterModule.forChild(routes)
  ],
  declarations: [
    AnyComponent,
    EditComponent
  ]
})
export default class AnythingModule {}

Is there anyway to make the above use case work with the Angular Router 3.4.1?

Answer 1

This was asked a year ago. However I was using Angular 5.1.2 and found myself with the same problem

This was a bug with the router solved on issue #18139, I updated to 5.2.1 on my package.json to get the fix

"@angular/core": "^5.2.1",
"@angular/forms": "^5.2.1",
"@angular/http": "^5.2.1",

etc...