Imperative navigation
To navigate imperatively, inject the Router service and call
navigate or navigateByUrl on it. Why two methods and not one?
Using router.navigateByUrl is similar to changing the location bar directly--we are providing the "whole" new URL. Whereas router.navigate creates a new URL by applying a series of passed-in commands, a patch, to the current URL.
To see the difference clearly, imagine that the current URL is
/inbox/11/messages/22(popup:compose).
With this URL, calling
router.navigateByUrl('/inbox/33/messages/44') will result in
/inbox/33/messages/44, and calling
router.navigate('/inbox/33/messages/44') will result in /inbox/33/messages/44(popup:compose).
Router.navigate
Let's see what we can do with
router.navigate
.
Passing an array or a string
Passing a string is sugar for passing an array with a single element.
router.navigate('/inbox/33/messages/44')is sugar for
router.navigate(['/inbox/33/messages/44'])
which itself is sugar for
router.navigate(['/inbox', 33...
