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Angular Router

You're reading from   Angular Router From Angular core team member and creator of the router

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288904
Length 118 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Victor Savkin Victor Savkin
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Local and absolute redirects

Redirects can be local and absolute. Local redirects replace a single URL segment with a different one. Absolute redirects replace the whole URL. If the redirectTo value starts with a /, then it is an absolute redirect. The next example shows the difference between relative and absolute redirects.

[
  {
    path: ':folder/:id',
    component: ConversationCmp,
    children: [
      {
        path: 'contacts/:name',
        redirectTo: '/contacts/:name'
      },
      {
        path: 'legacy/messages/:id',
        redirectTo: 'messages/:id'
      },
      {
        path: 'messages/:id',
        component: MessageCmp
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    path: 'contacts/:name',
    component: ContactCmp
  }
]

When navigating to /inbox/33/legacy/messages/44, the router will apply the second redirect and will change the URL to /inbox/33/messages/44. In other words, the part of the URL corresponding to the...

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