I would like to create an external redirect, but to make all routes consistent I think it would be nice to do everything(including external redirects) under Router States configuration.
so:
const appRoutes: Routes = [ {path: '', component: HomeComponent}, {path: 'first', component: FirstComponent}, {path: 'second', component: SecondComponent}, {path: 'external-link', /*would like to have redirect here*/} ];
UPD: and I don't want to use empty component for this case like @koningdavid suggested. This solution looks really weird for me. It should be something really easy to implement for such case, without virtual components.
In order to update the route without a reload of the entire component (page) I had to resort to plain ol' JavaScripts replaceState function. This way, the current route is substituted for a new one. If you want to keep the history, you can use pushState.
What is the difference between [routerLink] and routerLink ? How should you use each one? They're the same directive. You use the first one to pass a dynamic value, and the second one to pass a static path as a string.
Generate an application with routing enabledlink The following command uses the Angular CLI to generate a basic Angular application with an application routing module, called AppRoutingModule , which is an NgModule where you can configure your routes.
Yes it can be attached to div tag, your route is probably wrong try add / in front of route.
You can achieve what you want with a trick using the resolve option of a route. Resolve is some data value that Angular2 will obtain for the route to be initialized. More details you can find here in the official documentation.
I have tried this approach and it does work. Example:
Add this to the provider section (plus import the required classes from Routing)
@NgModule({ providers: [ { provide: 'externalUrlRedirectResolver', useValue: (route: ActivatedRouteSnapshot, state: RouterStateSnapshot) => { window.location.href = (route.data as any).externalUrl; } } ] })
Then you can define your route like this:
{ path: 'test', component: AnyRandomComponent, resolve: { url: 'externalUrlRedirectResolver' }, data: { externalUrl: 'http://www.google.com' } }
This will redirect to the external URL. It's a bit of a hackish way really. I tried to achieve the result without using the component at all, but you have to use either redirectTo
or component
or children
or loadChildren
. redirectTo
won't trigger the resolve and I am not sure about children, though you can experiment.
You can implement it in a nice class rather than direct function in provider. More info in the documentation (see reference above).
P.S. I would really rather use a redirect component myself I think. Just use the trick with the data and getting the state from the router with externalUrl
to get this as a parameter.
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