How to get params from the url with aurelia

Question

For example: http://localhost:3000/#/report/123456

How do I get the "123456" part from the url with Aurelia?

Hope you can help me, couldn't find anything useful in the docs.

Answer 1

you can get the submitted params in the activate method of the router (in your viewmodel)

activate(params) {
   return this.http.fetch('contacts/' + params.id)
      .then(response => response.json())
      .then(contact => this.contact = contact);
}

found in a nice blogpost here: http://www.elanderson.net/2015/10/aurelia-routing-with-a-parameter/

Answer 2

You have to have a route defined for it:

{ 
    route: ['report/:id'], 
    moduleId: './report', 
    title: 'Report', 
    name: 'report' 
}

Then in your view model, you can get the id from the params object:

activate(params) {  
    console.log(params.id);
}