routerLink absolute url

Question

From angular docs :

The router link directive always treats the provided input as a delta to the current url.

For instance, if the current url is /user/(box//aux:team). Then the following link <a [routerLink]="['/user/jim']">Jim</a> will generate the link /user/(jim//aux:team).

So how do you create a link to /user/jim ?

I tried ['/user/jim', { outlets: { aux: null }}] but this isn't working.
Even if it worked it wouldn't have been a optimal solution. I'm rather looking for a way to navigate to an absolute url than cancelling possibles outlets.

EDIT:

On the same subject I have a link to the root : routerLink="/" that does just that, it redirect to the root of my application without any outlets like an absolute link. What's funny here is I don't specially want that behavior for that particular link, keeping any outlets routes was fine...

Answer 1

As of August, 2018, Angular docs say:

• If the first segment begins with /, the router will look up the route from the root of the app.
• If the first segment begins with ./, or doesn't begin with a slash, the router will instead look in the children of the current activated route.
• And if the first segment begins with ../, the router will go up one level.