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The Component Router is in alpha release. This is the recommended Angular 2 router and supersedes
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the earlier *deprecated beta* and *v2* routers.
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The Angular ***Component Router*** enables navigation from one [view](./glossary.html#view) to the next
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as users perform application tasks.
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We cover the router's primary features in this chapter, illustrating them through the evolution
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of a small application that we can [run live](/resources/live-examples/router/ts/plnkr.html).
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To see the URL changes in the browser address bar,
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## Overview
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The browser is a familiar model of application navigation.
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We enter a URL in the address bar and the browser navigates to a corresponding page.
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We click links on the page and the browser navigates to a new page.
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We click the browser's back and forward buttons and the browser navigates
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backward and forward through the history of pages we've seen.
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The Angular ***Component Router*** ("the router") borrows from this model.
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It can interpret a browser URL as an instruction
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to navigate to a client-generated view and pass optional parameters along to the supporting view component
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to help it decide what specific content to present.
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We can bind the router to links on a page and it will navigate to
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the appropriate application view when the user clicks a link.
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We can navigate imperatively when the user clicks a button, selects from a drop box,
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or in response to some other stimulus from any source. And the router logs activity
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in the browser's history journal so the back and forward buttons work as well.
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We'll learn many router details in this chapter which covers
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* Setting the [base href](#base-href)
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* Importing from the [router library](#import)
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* [configuring the router](#route-config)
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* the [link parameters array](#link-parameters-array) that propels router navigation
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* navigating when the user clicks a data-bound [RouterLink](#router-link)
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* navigating under [program control](#navigate)
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* embedding critical information in the URL with [route parameters](#route-parameters)
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* add [child routes](#child-routing-component) under a feature section
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* [redirecting](#redirect) from one route to another
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* confirming or canceling navigation with [guards](#guards)
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* [CanActivate](#can-activate-guard) to prevent navigation to a route
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* [CanDeactivate](#can-deactivate-deactivate) to prevent navigation away from the current route
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* passing optional information in [query parameters](#query-parameters)
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* choosing the "HTML5" or "hash" [URL style](#browser-url-styles)
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We proceed in phases marked by milestones building from a simple two-pager with placeholder views
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up to a modular, multi-view design with child routes.
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But first, an overview of router basics.
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## The Basics
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Let's begin with a few core concepts of the Component Router.
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Then we can explore the details through a sequence of examples.
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### *<base href>*
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Most routing applications should add a `<base>` element to the **`index.html`** as the first child in the `<head>` tag
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to tell the router how to compose navigation URLs.
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If the `app` folder is the application root, as it is for our sample application,
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set the `href` value *exactly* as shown here.
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+makeExample('router/ts/index.1.html','base-href', 'index.html (base href)')(format=".")
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### Router imports
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The Angular Component Router is an optional service that presents a particular component view for a given URL.
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It is not part of the Angular 2 core. It is in its own library package, `@angular/router`.
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We import what we need from it as we would from any other Angular package.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/app.component.1.ts','import-router', 'app/app.component.ts (import)')(format=".")
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We cover other options in the [details below](#browser-url-styles).
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### Configuration
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The application will have one *`router`*. When the browser's URL changes, the router looks for a corresponding **`Route`**
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from which it can determine the component to display.
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A router has no routes until we configure it.
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The preferred way is to bootstrap our application with an array of routes using the **`provideRouter`** function.
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In the following example, we configure our application with three route definitions.
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The `RouterConfig` is an array of *routes* that describe how to navigate.
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Each *Route* maps a URL `path` to a component.
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There are no **leading slashes** in our **path**. The router parses and builds the URL for us,
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allowing us to use relative and absolute paths when navigating between application views.
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The `:id` in the third route is a token for a route parameter. In a URL such as `/hero/42`, "42"
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is the value of the `id` parameter. The corresponding `HeroDetailComponent`
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will use that value to find and present the hero whose `id` is 42.
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We'll learn more about route parameters later in this chapter.
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We pass the configuration array to the `provideRouter()` function which returns
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(among other things) a configured *Router* [service provider](dependency-injection.html#!#injector-providers).
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Finally, we export this provider in the `APP_ROUTER_PROVIDERS` array
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so we can simplify registration of router dependencies later in `main.ts`.
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We don't have any other providers to register right now. But we will.
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Next we open `main.ts` where we must register our router providers in the `bootstrap` method.
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### Router Outlet
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Given this configuration, when the browser URL for this application becomes `/heroes`,
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the router matches that URL to the `Route` path `/heroes` and displays the `HeroListComponent`
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in a **`RouterOutlet`** that we've placed in the host view's HTML.
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code-example(format="", language="html").
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<!-- Routed views go here -->
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### Router Links
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Now we have routes configured and a place to render them, but
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how do we navigate? The URL could arrive directly from the browser address bar.
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But most of the time we navigate as a result of some user action such as the click of
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an anchor tag.
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We add a **`RouterLink`** directive to the anchor tag and bind it to a template expression that
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returns an array of route link parameters (the **link parameters array**). The router ultimately resolves that array
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into a URL and a component view.
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We see such bindings in the following `AppComponent` template:
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We're adding two anchor tags with `RouterLink` directives.
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We bind each `RouterLink` to an array containing the path of a route.
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'/crisis-center' and '/heroes' are the paths of the `Routes` we configured above.
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### Let's summarize
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The application is provided with a configured router.
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The component has a `RouterOutlet` where it can display views produced by the router.
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It has `RouterLink`s that users can click to navigate via the router.
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Here are the key *Component Router* terms and their meanings:
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td <code>Router</code>
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Displays the application component for the active URL.
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Manages navigation from one component to the next.
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td <code>RouterConfig</code>
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td <code>Route</code>
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Defines how the router should navigate to a component based on a URL pattern.
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Most routes consist of a path and a component type.
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td <code>RouterOutlet</code>
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td <code>RouterLink</code>
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a route. Clicking an anchor tag with a <code>routerLink</code> directive
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that is bound to a <i>Link Parameters Array</i> triggers a navigation.
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td <code><i>Link Parameters Array</i></code>
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An array that the router interprets into a routing instruction.
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We can bind a <code>RouterLink</code> to that array or pass the array as an argument to
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the <code>Router.navigate</code> method.
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An Angular component with a <code>RouterOutlet</code> that displays views based on router navigations.
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We've barely touched the surface of the router and its capabilities.
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The following detail sections describe a sample routing application
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as it evolves over a sequence of milestones.
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We strongly recommend taking the time to read and understand this story.
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## The Sample Application
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We have an application in mind as we move from milestone to milestone.
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While we make incremental progress toward the ultimate sample application, this chapter is not a tutorial.
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We discuss code and design decisions pertinent to routing and application design.
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We gloss over everything in between.
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The full source is available in the [live example](/resources/live-examples/router/ts/plnkr.html).
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Our client is the Hero Employment Agency.
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Heroes need work and The Agency finds Crises for them to solve.
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The application has two main feature areas:
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1. A *Crisis Center* where we maintain the list of crises for assignment to heroes.
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1. A *Heroes* area where we maintain the list of heroes employed by The Agency.
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Run the [live example](/resources/live-examples/router/ts/plnkr.html).
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It opens in the *Crisis Center*. We'll come back to that.
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Click the *Heroes* link. We're presented with a list of Heroes.
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img(src='/resources/images/devguide/router/hero-list.png' alt="Hero List" width="250")
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We select one and the application takes us to a hero editing screen.
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img(src='/resources/images/devguide/router/hero-detail.png' alt="Crisis Center Detail" width="250")
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Our changes take effect immediately. We click the "Back" button and the
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app returns us to the Heroes list.
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We could have clicked the browser's back button instead.
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That would have returned us to the Heroes List as well.
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Angular app navigation updates the browser history as normal web navigation does.
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Now click the *Crisis Center* link. We go to the *Crisis Center* and its list of ongoing crises.
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We select one and the application takes us to a crisis editing screen.
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This is a bit different from the *Hero Detail*. *Hero Detail* saves the changes as we type.
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In *Crisis Detail* our changes are temporary until we either save or discard them by pressing the "Save" or "Cancel" buttons.
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Both buttons navigate back to the *Crisis Center* and its list of crises.
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Suppose we click a crisis, make a change, but ***do not click either button***.
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Maybe we click the browser back button instead. Maybe we click the "Heroes" link.
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Do either. Up pops a dialog box.
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We can say "OK" and lose our changes or click "Cancel" and continue editing.
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The router supports a `CanDeactivate` guard that gives us a chance to clean-up
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or ask the user's permission before navigating away from the current view.
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Here we see an entire user session that touches all of these features.
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<a id="full-app-demo"></a>
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Here's a diagram of all application routing options:
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This app illustrates the router features we'll cover in this chapter
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* navigating to a component (*Heroes* link to "Heroes List")
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* including a route parameter (passing the Hero `id` while routing to the "Hero Detail")
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* child routes (the *Crisis Center* has its own routes)
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* the `CanActivate` guard (checking route access)
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* the `CanDeactivate` guard (ask permission to discard unsaved changes)
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Let's begin with a simple version of the app that navigates between two empty views.
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set the `href` value in **`index.html`** *exactly* as shown here.
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in which we load routing configuration immediately but *delay
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loading the components themselves* until the user needs them.
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Here is our first configuration.
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depending on your requirements, you may need a different routing library.
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A router must be configured with a list of route definitions.
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Our first configuration defines an array of two routes with simple paths leading to the
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`CrisisListComponent` and `HeroListComponent` components.
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Each definition translates to a [Route](../api/router/index/Route-class.html) object which has a
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`path`, the URL path segment for this route, and a
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`component`, the component associated with this route.
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The router draws upon its registry of such route definitions when the browser URL changes
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or when our code tells the router to navigate along a route path.
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In plain English, we might say of the first route:
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* *When the browser's location URL changes to match the path segment `/crisis-center`, create or retrieve an instance of
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the `CrisisListComponent` and display its view.*
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* *When the application requests navigation to the path `/crisis-center`, create or retrieve an instance of
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the `CrisisListComponent`, display its view, and update the browser's address location and history with the URL
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for that path.*
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h4#provideRouter Call <i>provideRouter</i>
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We pass the route configuration to the `provideRouter` function which returns an array containing the configured
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`Router` service provider ... and some other, unseen providers that the routing library requires.
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We add the `provideRouter` array to an `APP_ROUTER_PROVIDERS` array and export it.
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providers that are specific to our routing configuration.
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Learn about *providers* in the [Dependency Injection](dependency-injection.html#!#injector-providers) chapter.
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Our app launches from the `main.ts` file in the `/app` folder.
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It's short and not much different from the default `main.ts`.
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The important difference: we import the `APP_ROUTER_PROVIDERS` array
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and pass it as the second parameter of the `bootstrap` function.
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Providing the router providers at bootstrap makes the Router available everywhere in our application.
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.alert.is-important
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We must register router providers in `bootstrap`.
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We cannot wait to do it in `AppComponent`.
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h3#shell The <i>AppComponent</i> shell
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The root `AppComponent` is the application shell. It has a title at the top, a navigation bar with two links,
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and a *Router Outlet* at the bottom where the router swaps views on and off the page. Here's what we mean:
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figure.image-display
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img(src='/resources/images/devguide/router/shell-and-outlet.png' alt="Shell" width="300" )
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a#shell-template
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The corresponding component template looks like this:
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/app.component.1.ts','template')(format=".")
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h3#router-outlet <i>RouterOutlet</i>
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`RouterOutlet` is a component from the router library.
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The router displays views within the bounds of the `<router-outlet>` tags.
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A template may hold exactly one ***unnamed*** `<router-outlet>`.
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The router supports multiple *named* outlets, a feature we'll cover in future.
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h3#router-link <i>RouterLink</i> binding
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Above the outlet, within the anchor tags, we see [Property Bindings](template-syntax.html#property-binding) to
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the `RouterLink` directive that look like `[routerLink]="[...]"`. We imported `RouterLink` from the router library.
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The template expression to the right of the equals (=) returns a *link parameters array*.
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A link parameters array holds the ingredients for router navigation:
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* the *path* of the route to the destination component
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* optional route and query parameters that go into the route URL
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The arrays in this example each have a single string parameter, the path of a route that
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we configured earlier. We don't have route parameters yet.
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.l-sub-section
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:marked
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Learn more about the link parameters array in the [appendix below](#link-parameters-array).
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h3#router-directives <i>ROUTER_DIRECTIVES</i>
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`RouterLink` and `RouterOutlet` are directives in the `ROUTER_DIRECTIVES` collection.
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Remember to add them to the `directives` array of the `@Component` metadata.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/app.component.1.ts','directives')(format=".")
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:marked
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The current state of `app.component.ts` looks like this:
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/app.component.1.ts','', 'app/app.component.ts')(format=".")
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### "Getting Started" wrap-up
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We've got a very basic, navigating app, one that can switch between two views
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when the user clicks a link.
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We've learned how to
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* load the router library
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* add a nav bar to the shell template with anchor tags and `routerLink` directives
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* added a `router-outlet` to the shell template where views will be displayed
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* configure the router with `provideRouter`
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* set the router to compose "HTML 5" browser URLs.
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The rest of the starter app is mundane, with little interest from a router perspective.
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Here are the details for readers inclined to build the sample through to this milestone.
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Our starter app's structure looks like this:
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.file node_modules ...
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.file typings ...
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Here are the files discussed in this milestone
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+makeTabs(
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`router/ts/app/app.component.1.ts,
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router/ts/app/app.routes.2.ts,
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router/ts/app/main.1.ts,
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router/ts/app/hero-list.component.ts,
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router/ts/app/crisis-list.component.ts,
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router/ts/index.html`,
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',,all,,',
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app.routes.ts,
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main.ts,
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hero-list.component.ts,
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index.html`)
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h2#heroes-feature Milestone #2: The Heroes Feature
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.l-main-section
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We've seen how to navigate using the `RouterLink` directive.
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Now we'll learn some new tricks such as how to
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* organize our app into *feature areas*
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* navigate imperatively from one component to another
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To demonstrate, we'll build out the *Heroes* feature.
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### The Heroes "feature area"
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A typical application has multiple *feature areas*, each an island of functionality
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with its own workflow(s), dedicated to a particular business purpose.
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We could continue to add files to the `app/` folder.
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That's unrealistic and ultimately not maintainable.
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We think it's better to put each feature area in its own folder.
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Our first step is to **create a separate `app/heroes/` folder**
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and add *Hero Management* feature files there.
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We won't be creative about it. Our example is pretty much a
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copy of the code and capabilities in the "[Tutorial: Tour of Heroes](../tutorial/index.html)".
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Here's how the user will experience this version of the app
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### Add Heroes functionality
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We delete the placeholder `hero-list.component.ts` that's in
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the `app/` folder.
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We create a new `hero-list.component.ts` in the `app/heroes/`
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folder and copy over the contents of the final `heroes.component.ts` from the tutorial.
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We copy the `hero-detail.component.ts` and the `hero.service.ts` files
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into the `heroes/` folder.
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When we're done organizing, we have three *Hero Management* files:
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We provide the `HeroService` in the application root `AppComponent`
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so that it is available everywhere in the app.
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Now it's time for some surgery to bring these files and the rest of the app
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into alignment with our application router.
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The new Heroes feature has two interacting components, the list and the detail.
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The list view is self-sufficient; we navigate to it, it gets a list of heroes and displays them.
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In our example, when the user selects a hero from the list, we navigate to the detail view to show that hero.
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### *Hero* feature route configuration
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We recommend giving each feature area its own route configuration file.
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2016-06-09 14:00:26 -04:00
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Create a new `hero.routes.ts` in the `heroes` folder like this:
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/heroes/heroes.routes.ts','', 'app/heroes/heroes.routes.ts')(format=".")
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We use the same techniques we learned for `app.routes.ts`.
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We import the two components from their new locations in the `app/heroes/` folder, define the two hero routes.
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and add them to an exported `HeroesRoutes` array.
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Notice the `:id` token in the path. That creates a slot in the path for a **Route Parameter**.
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pattern and go to the same "Magneta" detail view.
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#### Route parameter or query parameter?
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because the `id` is *required* by the `HeroDetailComponent` and because
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h3#merge-hero-routes Merge hero routes into application routes
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We replace the `HeroListComponent` import with an `HeroesRoutes` import.
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As a result, the `app.routes.ts` no longer has specific knowledge of the hero feature, its components, or its route details.
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It won't change as we evolve the hero feature with more components and different routes.
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h3#navigate Navigate to hero detail imperatively
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*We won't navigate to the detail component by clicking a link*
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so we won't be adding a new `RouterLink` anchor tag to the shell.
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Instead, when the user *clicks* a hero in the list, we'll *command* the router
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to navigate to the hero detail view for the selected hero.
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We'll adjust the `HeroListComponent` to implement these tasks, beginning with its constructor
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which acquires the router service and the `HeroService` by dependency injection:
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We make a few changes to the template:
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The template defines an `*ngFor` repeater such as [we've seen before](displaying-data.html#ngFor).
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There's a `(click)` [EventBinding](template-syntax.html#event-binding) to the component's `onSelect` method
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which we implement as follows:
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It calls the router's **`navigate`** method with a **Link Parameters Array**.
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This array is similar to the *link parameters array* we met [earlier](#shell-template) in an anchor tag while
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binding to the `RouterLink` directive. This time we see it in code rather than in HTML.
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h3#route-parameters Setting the route parameters in the list view
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We're navigating to the `HeroDetailComponent` where we expect to see the details of the selected hero.
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We'll need *two* pieces of information: the destination and the hero's `id`.
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Accordingly, the *link parameters array* has *two* items: the **path** of the destination route and a **route parameter** that specifies the
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`id` of the selected hero.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/heroes/hero-list.component.1.ts','link-parameters-array')(format=".")
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The router composes the appropriate two-part destination URL from this array:
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code-example(format="." language="bash").
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localhost:3000/hero/15
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h3#get-route-parameter Getting the route parameter in the details view
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How does the target `HeroDetailComponent` learn about that `id`?
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Certainly not by analyzing the URL! That's the router's job.
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The router extracts the route parameter (`id:15`) from the URL and supplies it to
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the `HeroDetailComponent` via the **ActivatedRoute** service.
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a#hero-detail-ctor
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As usual, we write a constructor that asks Angular to inject services
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that the component requires and reference them as private variables.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/heroes/hero-detail.component.ts','ctor', 'app/heroes/hero-detail.component.ts (Constructor)')(format=".")
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Later, in the `ngOnInit` method,
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we use the `ActivatedRoute` service to retrieve the parameters for our route.
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Since our parameters are provided as an `Observable`, we _subscribe_ to them for the `id` parameter by name and
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tell the `HeroService` to fetch the hero with that `id`. We'll keep a reference to this `Subscription` so we can
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tidy things up later.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/heroes/hero-detail.component.ts','ngOnInit')(format=".")
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Angular calls the `ngOnInit` method shortly after creating an instance of the `HeroDetailComponent`.
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We put the data access logic in the `ngOnInit` method rather than inside the constructor
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to improve the component's testability.
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We explore this point in greater detail in the [OnInit appendix](#onInit) below.
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Eventually, we'll navigate somewhere else.
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The router will remove this component from the DOM and destroy it.
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We need to clean up after ourselves before that happens.
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Specifically, we **must unsubscribe** before Angular destroys the component.
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*Failure to do so could create a memory leak.*
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We unsubscribe from our `Observable` in the `ngOnDestroy` method.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/heroes/hero-detail.component.ts','ngOnDestroy')(format=".")
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Learn about the `ngOnInit` and `ngOnDestroy` methods in the
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[Lifecycle Hooks](lifecycle-hooks.html) chapter.
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h4#reuse Observable <i>params</i> and component re-use
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:marked
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In this example, we subscribe to the route params `Observable`.
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That implies that the route params can change during the lifetime of this component.
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They might. By default, the router reuses a component instance when it re-navigates to the same component type
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without visiting a different component first. The parameters can change between each re-use.
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Suppose a parent component navigation bar had "forward" and "back" buttons
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that scrolled through the list of heroes.
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Each click navigated imperatively to the `HeroDetailComponent` with the next or previous `id`.
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We don't want the router to remove the current `HeroDetailComponent` instance from the
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DOM only to re-create it for the next `id`.
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That could be visibly jarring.
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Better to simply re-use the same component instance and update the parameter.
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But `ngOnInit` is only called once per instantiation.
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We need a way to detect when the route parameters change from _within the same instance_.
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The observable `params` property handles that beautifully.
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h4#snapshot <i>Snapshot</i>: the no-observable alternative
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This application won't reuse the `HeroDetailComponent`.
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We always return to the hero list to select another hero to view.
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There's no way to navigate from hero detail to hero detail
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without visiting the list component in between.
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That means we get a new `HeroDetailComponent` instance every time.
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Suppose we know for certain that `HeroDetailComponent` will *never, never, ever*
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be re-used. We'll always re-create the component each time we navigate to it.
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The router offers a *Snapshot* alternative that gives us the initial value of the route parameters.
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We don't need to subscribe. We don't have to unsubscribe in `ngDestroy`.
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It's much simpler to write and read:
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/heroes/hero-detail.component.2.ts','snapshot')(format=".")
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.l-sub-section
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:marked
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**Remember:** we only get the _initial_ value of the parameters with this technique.
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Stick with the observable `params` approach if there's even a chance that we might navigate
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to this component multiple times in a row.
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We are leaving the observable `params` strategy in place just in case.
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h3#nav-to-list Navigating back to the list component
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:marked
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The `HeroDetailComponent` has a "Back" button wired to its `gotoHeroes` method that navigates imperatively
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back to the `HeroListComponent`.
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The router `navigate` method takes the same one-item *link parameters array*
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that we bound to the application shell's *Heroes* `[routerLink]` directive.
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It holds the **path to the `HeroListComponent`**:
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/heroes/hero-detail.component.1.ts','gotoHeroes')(format=".")
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### Heroes App Wrap-up
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We've reached the second milestone in our router education.
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We've learned how to
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* organize our app into *feature areas*
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* navigate imperatively from one component to another
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* pass information along in route parameters and subscribe to them in our component
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After these changes, the folder structure looks like this:
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.filetree
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.file heroes
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.file hero-detail.component.ts
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.file hero-list.component.ts
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.file hero.service.ts
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.file app.routes.ts
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.file main.ts
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.file node_modules ...
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.file typings ...
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.file index.html
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.file package.json
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.file styles.css
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<a id="heroes-app-code"></a>
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### The Heroes App code
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Here are the relevant files for this version of the sample application.
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+makeTabs(
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`router/ts/app/app.component.1.ts,
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router/ts/app/app.routes.3.ts,
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router/ts/app/heroes/hero-list.component.1.ts,
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router/ts/app/heroes/hero-detail.component.1.ts,
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router/ts/app/heroes/hero.service.ts,
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router/ts/app/heroes/heroes.routes.ts`,
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null,
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app.routes.ts,
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hero-list.component.ts,
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hero-detail.component.ts,
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hero.service.ts,
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heroes.routes.ts`)
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<a id="crisis-center-feature"></a>
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## Milestone #3: The Crisis Center
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The *Crisis Center* is a fake view at the moment. Time to make it useful.
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The new *Crisis Center* begins as a virtual copy of the *Heroes* feature.
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We create a new `app/crisis-center` folder, copy the Hero files,
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and change every mention of "hero" to "crisis".
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A `Crisis` has an `id` and `name`, just like a `Hero`
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The new `CrisisListComponent` displays lists of crises.
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When the user selects a crisis, the app navigates to the `CrisisDetailComponent`
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for display and editing of the crisis name.
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Voilà, instant feature module!
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There's no point to this exercise unless we can learn something.
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We do have new ideas and techniques in mind:
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* We'd like our route URLs to branch in to child route trees that reflect the component treese in our feature areas.
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* The application should navigate to the *Crisis Center* by default.
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* The router should prevent navigation away from the detail view while there are pending changes.
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* The user should be able to cancel unwanted changes.
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* The router should block access to certain features until the user logs-in.
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* Our `CrisisService` is only needed within the *Crisis Center* feature area.
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any other feature's component.
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We need to [*separate our concerns*](https://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2014/05/08/SingleReponsibilityPrinciple.html).
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We'll address all of these issues in the *Crisis Center*
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starting with the introduction of **child routes**
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We'll leave *Heroes* in its less-than-perfect state to
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serve as a contrast with what we believe to be a superior *Crisis Center* design.
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### A Crisis Center with child routes
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We'll organize the *Crisis Center* to conform to the following recommended pattern for Angular applications.
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* each feature area in its own folder
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* each area with its own area root component
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* each area root component with its own router-outlet and child routes
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* area routes rarely (if ever) cross
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If we had many feature areas, their component trees might look like this:
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h3#child-routing-component Child Routing Component
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The `CrisisCenterComponent` is much like the `AppComponent` shell.
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* It is the root of the *Crisis Center* area
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just as `AppComponent` is the root of the entire application.
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* It is a shell for the crisis management feature area
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just as the `AppComponent` is a shell to manage the high-level workflow.
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* It is dead simple — simpler even than the `AppComponent` template.
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It has no content, no links, just a `<router-outlet>` for the *Crisis Center* child views.
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Unlike `AppComponent` (and most other components), it **lacks a selector**.
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It doesn't need one. We don't *embed* this component in a parent template.
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We *navigate* to it from the outside, via the router.
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We *can* give it a selector. There's no harm in it.
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Our point is that we don't *need* one because we only *navigate* to it.
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### Service isolation
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The`CrisisService` is neither needed nor wanted outside the *Crisis Center* domain.
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Instead of registering it with the root `AppComponent` providers —
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which makes it visible everywhere —
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we register the `CrisisService` in the component's providers array.
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This limits the scope of the `CrisisService` to the *Crisis Center* component and its sub-component tree.
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No component outside of the *Crisis Center* can access it.
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There's a practical benefit to restricting its scope in this way.
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First we can evolve the service independently of the rest of the application
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reducing the size of the initial payload and improving performance.
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We can load it optionally, asynchronously with the other *Crisis Center* components
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if and when the user begins that workflow.
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### Child Route Configuration
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The `CrisisCenterComponent` is a *Routing Component* like the `AppComponent`.
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It has its own `RouterOutlet` and its own child routes.
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We create a `crisis-center.routes.ts` file as we did the `heroes.routes.ts` file.
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But this time we define **child routes** *within* the parent `/crisis-center` route.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/crisis-center/crisis-center.routes.1.ts', 'routes', 'app/crisis-center/crisis-center.routes.ts (Routes)' )(format='.')
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Notice that the parent `/crisis-center` route has a `children` property
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with an array of two routes.
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These two routes navigate to the two *Crisis Center* child components,
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`CrisisListComponent` and `CrisisDetailComponent`.
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There are some *important differences* in the treatment of these routes.
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First, the router displays the components of these child routes in the `RouterOutlet`
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of the `CrisisCenterComponent`, not in the `RouterOutlet` of the `AppComponent` shell.
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Second, the child paths *extend* the path of their parent route.
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Normally paths that begin with `/` refer to the root of the application.
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Here they are appended to the path to the `CrisisCenterComponent`.
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To write an URL that navigates to the `CrisisListComponent`, we'd append its child route path, `/`,
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to `/crisis-center`.
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To write an URL that navigates to the `CrisisDetailComponent`, we'd append the child route path, `/`,
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followed by the crisis id, yielding something like:
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code-example(format="").
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localhost:3000/crisis-center/2
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Here's the complete `crisis-center.routes.ts` with its imports.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/crisis-center/crisis-center.routes.1.ts', '', 'app/crisis-center/crisis-center.routes.ts' )(format='.')
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h3#merge-crisis-routes Merge crisis routes into the application routes
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As with hero routes, we must update the router configuration at the top of the application
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by merging the crisis routes into the app routes:
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/app.routes.4.ts', '', 'app/app.routes.ts' )(format='.')
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We used the spread operator again (...) to insert the crisis routes array.
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h3#redirect Redirecting routes
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When the application launches, the initial URL in the browser bar is something like:
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code-example(format="").
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localhost:3000
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That doesn't match any of our configured routes which means that our application won't display any component when it's launched.
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The user must click one of the navigation links to trigger a navigation and display something.
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We want the application to display the list of crises as it would if we pasted `localhost:3000/crisis-center/` into the address bar.
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This is our intended default route.
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We can arrange for that behavior in several ways.
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One way is to use a `redirect` to transparently navigate from one route to another.
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In our example, we'll add a route to match our initial URL and redirect to our `crisis-center` route:
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/crisis-center/crisis-center.routes.2.ts', 'redirect', 'app/crisis-center/crisis-center.routes.ts (redirect route)' )(format='.')
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Since we only want to redirect when our path specifically matches `''`, we've added an extra configuration
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to our route using `terminal: true`. Mainly for redirects, the `terminal` property tells the router
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whether or not it should continue matching our URL against the rest of our defined routes.
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We'll discuss redirects further in a future update to this chapter.
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The updated route definitions look like this:
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/crisis-center/crisis-center.routes.2.ts', 'routes', 'app/crisis-center/crisis-center.routes.ts (Routes v.2)' )(format='.')
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h2#guards Route Guards
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At the moment, *any* user can navigate *anywhere* in the application *anytime*.
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That's not always the right thing to do.
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* Perhaps the user is not authorized to navigate to the target component.
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* Maybe the user must login (*authenticate*) first.
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* Maybe we should fetch some data before we display the target component.
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* We might want to save pending changes before leaving a component.
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* We might ask the user if it's OK to discard pending changes rather than save them.
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We can add ***guards*** to our route configuration to handle these scenarios.
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A guard's return value controls the router's behavior:
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* if it returns `true`, the navigation process continues
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* if it returns `false`, the navigation process stops and the user stays put
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The guard can also tell the router to navigate elsewhere, effectively canceling the current navigation.
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The guard *might* return its boolean answer synchronously.
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But in many cases, the guard can't produce an answer synchronously.
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The guard could ask the user a question, save changes to the server, or fetch fresh data.
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These are all asynchronous operations.
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Accordingly, a routing guard can return an `Observable<boolean>` and the
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router will wait for the observable to resolve to `true` or `false`.
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The router supports two kinds of guards:
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1. [CanActivate](../api/router/index/CanActivate-interface.html) to mediate navigation *to* a route.
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2. [CanDeactivate](../api/router/index/CanDeactivate-interface.html) to mediate navigation *away* from the current route.
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We'll examine other router guards in a future update to this chapter.
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We can have multiple guards at every level of a routing hierarchy.
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The router checks the `CanDeactive` guards first, from deepest child route to the top.
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Then it checks the `CanActivate` guards from the top down to the deepest child route.
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If _any_ guard returns false, pending guards that have not completed will be canceled,
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and the entire navigation is canceled.
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Let's look at some examples.
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// :marked
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<a id="lifecycle-hooks"></a>
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## Router Lifecycle Hooks
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TODO: Pausing activation
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h3#can-activate-guard <i>CanActivate</i>: requiring authentication
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Applications often restrict access to a feature area based on who the user is.
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We could permit access only to authenticated users or to users with a specific role.
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We might block or limit access until the user's account is activated.
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The `CanActivate` guard is the tool to manage these navigation business rules.
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#### Add a crisis admin feature
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We intend to extend the Crisis Center with some new *administrative* features.
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Those features aren't defined yet. So we add the following placeholder component.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/crisis-center/crisis-admin.component.ts', '', 'crisis-admin.component.ts')(format=".")
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Next, we add a child route to the `crisis-center.routes` with the path, `/admin`.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/crisis-center/crisis-center.routes.3.ts', 'admin-route-no-guard', 'crisis-center.routes.ts (admin route)')(format=".")
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And we add a link to the `AppComponent` shell that users can click to get to this feature.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/app.component.4.ts', 'template', 'app/app.component.ts (template)')(format=".")
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#### Guard the admin feature
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Currently every route within our *Crisis Center* is open to everyone.
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The new *admin* feature should be accessible only to authenticated users.
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We could hide the link until the user logs in. But that's tricky and difficult to maintain.
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Instead we'll write a `CanActivate` guard to redirect anonymous users to the login page when they try to reach the admin component.
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This is a general purpose guard — we can imagine other features that require authenticated users —
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so we create an `auth.guard.ts` in the application root folder.
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At the moment we're interested in seeing how guards work so our first version does nothing useful.
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It simply logs to console and `returns` true immediately, allowing navigation to proceed:
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/auth.guard.1.ts', '', 'app/auth.guard.ts')(format=".")
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Next we open `crisis-center.routes.ts `, import the `AuthGuard` class, and
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update the admin route with a `CanActivate` guard property that references it:
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/crisis-center/crisis-center.routes.ts', 'admin-route', 'crisis-center.routes.ts (guarded admin route)')(format=".")
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Our admin feature is now protected by the guard, albeit protected poorly.
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#### Teach *AuthGuard* to authenticate
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Let's make our `AuthGuard` at least pretend to authenticate.
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The `AuthGuard` should call an application service that can login a user and retain information about the current user.
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Here's a demo `AuthService`:
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/auth.service.ts', '', 'app/auth.service.ts')(format=".")
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Although it doesn't actually log in, it has what we need for this discussion.
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It has an `isLoggedIn` flag to tell us whether the user is authenticated.
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Its `login` method simulates an API call to an external service by returning an observable that resolves successfully after a short pause.
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Let's revise our `AuthGuard` to call it.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/auth.guard.ts', '', 'app/auth.guard.ts (v.2)')(format=".")
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Notice that we *inject* the `AuthService` and the `Router` in the constructor.
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We haven't provided the `AuthService` yet but it's good to know that we can inject helpful services into our routing guards.
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This guard returns a synchronous boolean result.
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If the user is logged in, it returns true and the navigation continues.
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If the user is not logged in, we tell the router to navigate to a login page — a page we haven't created yet.
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This secondary navigation automatically cancels the current navigation; we return `false` just to be clear about that.
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#### Add the *LoginComponent*
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We need a `LoginComponent` for the user to log in to the app.
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There is nothing new about this component or the way we wire it into the router configuration.
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Here is the pertinent code, offered without comment:
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+makeTabs(
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`router/ts/app/login.component.ts,
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router/ts/app/login.routes.ts,
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app/login.routes.ts,
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app/app.routes.ts
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h3#can-deactivate-guard <i>CanDeactivate</i>: handling unsaved changes
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Back in the "Heroes" workflow, the app accepts every change to a hero immediately without hesitation or validation.
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In the real world, we might have to accumulate the users changes.
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We might have to validate across fields. We might have to validate on the server.
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We might have to hold changes in a pending state until the user confirms them *as a group* or
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cancels and reverts all changes.
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What do we do about unapproved, unsaved changes when the user navigates away?
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We can't just leave and risk losing the user's changes; that would be a terrible experience.
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We'd like to pause and let the user decide what to do.
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If the user cancels, we'll stay put and allow more changes.
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If the user approves, the app can save.
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We still might delay navigation until the save succeeds.
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If we let the user move to the next screen immediately and
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the save failed (perhaps the data are ruled invalid), we would have lost the context of the error.
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We can't block while waiting for the server — that's not possible in a browser.
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We need to stop the navigation while we wait, asynchronously, for the server
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to return with its answer.
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We need the `CanDeactivate` guard.
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### Cancel and Save
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Our sample application doesn't talk to a server.
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Fortunately, we have another way to demonstrate an asynchronous router hook.
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Users update crisis information in the `CrisisDetailComponent`.
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Unlike the `HeroDetailComponent`, the user changes do not update the
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crisis entity immediately. We update the entity when the user presses the *Save* button.
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We discard the changes if the user presses he *Cancel* button.
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Both buttons navigate back to the crisis list after save or cancel.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/crisis-center/crisis-detail.component.1.ts', 'cancel-save', 'crisis-detail.component.ts (excerpt)')(format=".")
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What if the user tries to navigate away without saving or canceling?
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The user could push the browser back button or click the heroes link.
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Both actions trigger a navigation.
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Should the app save or cancel automatically?
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We'll do neither. Instead we'll ask the user to make that choice explicitly
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in a confirmation dialog box that *waits asynchronously for the user's
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answer*.
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.l-sub-section
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We could wait for the user's answer with synchronous, blocking code.
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Our app will be more responsive ... and can do other work ...
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by waiting for the user's answer asynchronously. Waiting for the user asynchronously
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is like waiting for the server asynchronously.
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The `DialogService` (injected in the `AppComponent` for app-wide use) does the asking.
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It returns a [promise](http://exploringjs.com/es6/ch_promises.html) that
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*resolves* when the user eventually decides what to do: either
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to discard changes and navigate away (`true`) or to preserve the pending changes and stay in the crisis editor (`false`).
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We will take the result of that promise and convert it to an `Observable` for our guard to use.
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<a id="CanDeactivate"></a>
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We create a `Guard` that will check for the presence of a `canDeactivate` function in our component, in this
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case being `CrisisDetailComponent`. We don't need to know the details of how our `CrisisDetailComponent` confirms deactivation.
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This makes our guard reusable, which is an easy win for us.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/interfaces.ts', '', 'interfaces.ts')
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Looking at our `CrisisDetailComponent`, we have implemented our confirmation workflow for unsaved changes.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/crisis-center/crisis-detail.component.1.ts', 'cancel-save-only', 'crisis-detail.component.ts (excerpt)')
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Notice that the `canDeactivate` method *can* return synchronously;
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it returns `true` immediately if there is no crisis or there are no pending changes.
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But it can also return a promise or an `Observable` and the router will wait for that
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to resolve to truthy (navigate) or falsey (stay put).
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We add the `Guard` to our crisis detail route in `crisis-center.routes.ts` using the `canDeactivate` array.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/crisis-center/crisis-center.routes.4.ts', '', 'crisis-center.routes.ts')
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We also need to add the `Guard` to our main `APP_ROUTER_PROVIDERS` so the `Router` can inject it during the navigation process.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/app.routes.ts', '', 'app.routes.ts')
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Now we have given our user a safeguard against unsaved changes.
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**Two critical points**
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1. The router interface is optional. We don't inherit from a base class. We simply implement the interface method or not.
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1. We rely on the router to call the guard. We don't worry about all the ways that the user
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could navigate away. That's the router's job.
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We simply write this class and let the router take it from there.
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The relevant *Crisis Center* code for this milestone is
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+makeTabs(
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`router/ts/app/app.component.ts,
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router/ts/app/auth.guard.ts,
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router/ts/app/crisis-center/crisis-center.component.ts,
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router/ts/app/crisis-center/crisis-center.routes.ts,
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router/ts/app/crisis-center/crisis-list.component.1.ts,
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router/ts/app/crisis-center/crisis-detail.component.1.ts,
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router/ts/app/crisis-center/crisis.service.ts,
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router/ts/app/interfaces.ts
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`,
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null,
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`app.component.ts,
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auth.guard.ts,
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crisis-center.component.ts,
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crisis-center.routes.ts,
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crisis-list.component.ts,
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crisis-detail.component.ts,
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crisis.service.ts,
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interfaces.ts
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<a id="query-parameters"></a>
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<a id="query-parameter"></a>
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.l-main-section
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## Milestone #4: Query Parameters
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We use [*route parameters*](#route-parameters) to specify a *required* parameterized value *within* the route URL
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as we do when navigating to the `HeroDetailComponent` in order to view-and-edit the hero with *id:15*.
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code-example(format="." language="bash").
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localhost:3000/hero/15
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:marked
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Sometimes we wish to add *optional* information to a route request.
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For example, the `HeroListComponent` doesn't need help to display a list of heroes.
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But it might be nice if the previously-viewed hero were pre-selected when returning from the `HeroDetailComponent`.
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figure.image-display
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img(src='/resources/images/devguide/router/selected-hero.png' alt="Selected hero")
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:marked
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That becomes possible if we can include hero Magneta's `id` in the URL when we
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return from the `HeroDetailComponent`, a scenario we'll pursue in a moment.
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Optional information takes other forms. Search criteria are often loosely structured, e.g., `name='wind*'`.
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Multiple values are common — `after='12/31/2015' & before='1/1/2017'` — in no particular order —
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`before='1/1/2017' & after='12/31/2015'` — in a variety of formats — `during='currentYear'` .
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These kinds of parameters don't fit easily in a URL *path*. Even if we could define a suitable URL token scheme,
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doing so greatly complicates the pattern matching required to translate an incoming URL to a named route.
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The **URL query string** is the ideal vehicle for conveying arbitrarily complex information during navigation.
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The query string isn't involved in pattern matching and affords enormous flexiblity of expression.
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Almost anything serializable can appear in a query string.
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The Component Router supports navigation with query strings as well as route parameters.
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We define query string parameters in the *route parameters object* just like we do with route parameters.
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<a id="route-or-query-parameter"></a>
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### Route Parameters or Query Parameters?
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There is no hard-and-fast rule. In general,
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*prefer a route parameter when*
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* the value is required.
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* the value is necessary to distinguish one route path from another.
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*prefer a query parameter when*
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* the value is optional.
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* the value is complex and/or multi-variate.
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<a id="route-parameters-object"></a>
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### Route parameter
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When navigating to the `HeroDetailComponent` we specified the `id` of the hero-to-edit in the
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*route parameter* and made it the second item of the [*link parameters array*](#link-parameters-array).
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/heroes/hero-list.component.1.ts','link-parameters-array')(format=".")
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The router embedded the `id` value in the navigation URL because we had defined it
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as a route parameter with an `:id` placeholder token in the route `path`:
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/heroes/heroes.routes.ts','hero-detail-route')(format=".")
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:marked
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When the user clicks the back button, the `HeroDetailComponent` constructs another *link parameters array*
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which it uses to navigate back to the `HeroListComponent`.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/heroes/hero-detail.component.1.ts','gotoHeroes')(format=".")
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:marked
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This array lacks a route parameter because we had no reason to send information to the `HeroListComponent`.
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Now we have a reason. We'd like to send the id of the current hero with the navigation request so that the
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`HeroListComponent` can highlight that hero in its list.
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We do that with a `NavigationExtras` object with `queryParams`.
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We also defined a junk parameter (`foo`) that the `HeroListComponent` should ignore.
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Here's the revised navigation statement:
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/heroes/hero-detail.component.ts','gotoHeroes-navigate')(format=".")
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The application still works. Clicking "back" returns to the hero list view.
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Look at the browser address bar.
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.l-sub-section
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img(src='/resources/images/devguide/plunker-separate-window-button.png' alt="pop out the window" align="right" style="margin-right:-20px")
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:marked
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When running in plunker, pop out the preview window by clicking the blue 'X' button in the upper right corner.
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It should look something like this, depending on where you run it:
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code-example(format="." language="bash").
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localhost:3000/heroes?id=15&foo=foo
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:marked
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The `id` value appears in the query string (`?id=15&foo=foo`), not in the URL path.
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The path for the "Heroes" route doesn't have an `:id` token.
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// .alert.is-helpful
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The router replaces route path tokens with corresponding values from the route parameters object.
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**Every parameter _not_ consumed by a route path goes in the query string.**
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### Query parameters in the *ActivatedRoute* service
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The list of heroes is unchanged. No hero row is highlighted.
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.l-sub-section
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:marked
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The [live example](/resources/live-examples/router/ts/plnkr.html) *does* highlight the selected
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row because it demonstrates the final state of the application which includes the steps we're *about* to cover.
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At the moment we're describing the state of affairs *prior* to those steps.
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The `HeroListComponent` isn't expecting any parameters at all and wouldn't know what to do with them.
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Let's change that.
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When navigating from the `HeroListComponent` to the `HeroDetailComponent`
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we subscribed the route params `Observable` and made it available to the `HeroDetailComponent`
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in the `ActivatedRoute` service. We injected that service in the constructor of the `HeroDetailComponent`.
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This time we'll be navigating in the opposite direction, from the `HeroDetailComponent` to the `HeroListComponent`.
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This time we'll inject the `Router` service in the constructor of the `HeroListComponent`.
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First we extend the router import statement to include the `ActivatedRoute` service symbol;
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/heroes/hero-list.component.ts','import-router', 'hero-list.component.ts (import)')(format=".")
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Then we use the `routerState` to access the globally available query parameters `Observable` so we can subscribe
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and extract the `id` parameter as the `selectedId`:
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/heroes/hero-list.component.ts','ctor', 'hero-list.component.ts (constructor)')(format=".")
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.l-sub-section
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All route/query parameters are strings.
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The (+) in front of the `params['id']` expression is a JavaScript trick to convert the string to an integer.
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We add an `isSelected` method that returns true when a hero's id matches the selected id.
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/heroes/hero-list.component.ts','isSelected', 'hero-list.component.ts (constructor)')(format=".")
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Finally, we update our template with a [Class Binding](template-syntax.html#class-binding) to that `isSelected` method.
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The binding adds the `selected` CSS class when the method returns `true` and removes it when `false`.
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Look for it within the repeated `<li>` tag as shown here:
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/heroes/hero-list.component.ts','template', 'hero-list.component.ts (template)')(format=".")
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When the user navigates from the heroes list to the "Magneta" hero and back, "Magneta" appears selected:
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figure.image-display
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img(src='/resources/images/devguide/router/selected-hero.png' alt="Selected List" )
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The `foo` query string parameter is harmless and continues to be ignored.
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### Child Routers and Query Parameters
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We can define query parameters for child routers too.
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The technique is precisely the same.
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In fact, we made exactly the same changes to the *Crisis Center* feature.
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Confirm the similarities in these *Hero* and *CrisisCenter* components,
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arranged side-by-side for easy comparison:
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+makeTabs(
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router/ts/app/crisis-center/crisis-list.component.ts,
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router/ts/app/heroes/hero-detail.component.ts,
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router/ts/app/crisis-center/crisis-detail.component.ts
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`,
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`hero-list.component.ts,
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crisis-list.component.ts,
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hero-detail.component.ts,
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crisis-detail.component.ts
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`)
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:marked
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When we navigate back from a `CrisisDetailComponent` that is showing the *Asteroid* crisis,
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we see that crisis properly selected in the list like this:
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figure.image-display
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**Look at the browser address bar again**. It's *different*. It looks something like this:
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code-example(format="." language="bash").
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localhost:3000/crisis-center/;id=3;foo=foo
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The query string parameters are no longer separated by "?" and "&".
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They are **separated by semicolons (;)**
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This is *matrix URL* notation — something we may not have seen before.
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*Matrix URL* notation is an idea first floated
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in a [1996 proposal](http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/MatrixURIs.html) by the founder of the web, Tim Berners-Lee.
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Although matrix notation never made it into the HTML standard, it is legal and
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it became popular among browser routing systems as a way to isolate parameters
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belonging to parent and child routes. The Angular Component Router is such a system.
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The syntax may seem strange to us but users are unlikely to notice or care
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as long as the URL can be emailed and pasted into a browser address bar
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as this one can.
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## Wrap Up
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We've covered a lot of ground in this chapter and the application is too big to reprint here.
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Please visit the [live example](/resources/live-examples/router/ts/plnkr.html) and
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where you can download the final source code.
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## Appendices
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The balance of this chapter is a set of appendices that
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elaborate some of the points we covered quickly above.
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The appendix material isn't essential. Continued reading is for the curious.
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<a id="link-parameters-array"></a>
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## Appendix: Link Parameters Array
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We've mentioned the *Link Parameters Array* several times. We've used it several times.
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We've bound the `RouterLink` directive to such an array like this:
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We've written a two element array when specifying a route parameter like this
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/heroes/hero-list.component.1.ts', 'nav-to-detail')(format=".")
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These two examples cover our needs for an app with one level routing.
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The moment we add a child router, such as the *Crisis Center*, we create new link array possibilities.
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Recall that we specified a default child route for *Crisis Center* so this simple `RouterLink` is fine.
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Let's parse it out.
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* The first item in the array identifies the parent route ('/crisis-center').
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* There are no parameters for this parent route so we're done with it.
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* There is no default for the child route so we need to pick one.
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* We decide to go to the `CrisisListComponent` whose route path is '/' but we don't need to explicitly add it
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* Voila! `['/crisis-center']`.
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Let's take it a step further.
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This time we'll build a link parameters array that navigates from the root of the application
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down to the "Dragon Crisis".
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* The first item in the array identifies the parent route ('/crisis-center').
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* There are no parameters for this parent route so we're done with it.
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* The second item identifies the child route for details about a particular crisis ('/:id').
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* The details child route requires an `id` route parameter
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* We add `id` of the *Dragon Crisis* as the third item in the array (`1`)
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It looks like this!
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/app.component.3.ts', 'Dragon-anchor')(format=".")
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If we wanted to, we could redefine our `AppComponent` template with *Crisis Center* routes exclusively:
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In sum, we can write applications with one, two or more levels of routing.
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The link parameters array affords the flexibility to represent any routing depth and
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any legal sequence of route paths, (required) router parameters and (optional) route parameter objects.
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<a id="onInit"></a>
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## Appendix: Why use an *ngOnInit* method
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We implemented an `ngOnInit` method in many of our Component classes.
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We did so, for example, in the [HeroDetailComponent](#hero-detail-ctor).
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We might have put the `ngOnInit` logic inside the constructor instead. We didn't for a reason. The reason is *testability*.
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A constructor that has major side-effects can be difficult to test because it starts doing things as soon as
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we create a test instance. In this case, it might have made a request to a remote server, something it shouldn't
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do under test. It may even be impossible to reach the server in the test environment.
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The better practice is to limit what the constructor can do. Mostly it should stash parameters in
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local variables and perform simple instance configuration.
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Yet we want an instance of this class to get the hero data from the `HeroService` soon after it is created.
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How do we ensure that happens if not in the constructor?
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Angular detects when a component has certain lifecycle methods like
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[ngOnInit](../api/core/index/OnInit-class.html) and
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[ngOnDestroy](../api/core/index/OnDestroy-class.html) and calls
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them
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at the appropriate moment.
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Angular will call `ngOnInit` when we navigate to the `HeroDetailComponent`, we'll get the `id` from the `ActivatedRoute`
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params and ask the server for the hero with that `id`.
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We too can call that `ngOnInit` method in our tests if we wish ... after taking control of the injected
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`HeroService` and (perhaps) mocking it.
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<a name="browser-url-styles"></a>
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<a id="location-strategy"></a>
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## Appendix: *LocationStrategy* and browser URL styles
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When the router navigates to a new component view, it updates the browser's location and history
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with a URL for that view.
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This is a strictly local URL. The browser shouldn't send this URL to the server
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and should not reload the page.
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Modern HTML 5 browsers support
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[history.pushState](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API#Adding_and_modifying_history_entries),
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a technique that changes a browser's location and history without triggering a server page request.
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The router can compose a "natural" URL that is indistinguishable from
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one that would otherwise require a page load.
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Here's the *Crisis Center* URL in this "HTML 5 pushState" style:
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code-example(format=".", language="bash").
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localhost:3002/crisis-center/
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Older browsers send page requests to the server when the location URL changes ...
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unless the change occurs after a "#" (called the "hash").
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Routers can take advantage of this exception by composing in-application route
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URLs with hashes. Here's a "hash URL" that routes to the *Crisis Center*
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code-example(format=".", language="bash").
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localhost:3002/src/#/crisis-center/
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The Angular Component Router supports both styles with two `LocationStrategy` providers:
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1. `PathLocationStrategy` - the default "HTML 5 pushState" style.
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1. `HashLocationStrategy` - the "hash URL" style.
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The router's `provideRouter` function sets the `LocationStrategy` to the `PathLocationStrategy`,
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making it the default strategy.
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We can switch to the `HashLocationStrategy` with an override during the bootstrapping process if we prefer it.
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Learn about "providers" and the bootstrap process in the
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[Dependency Injection chapter](dependency-injection#bootstrap)
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### Which Strategy is Best?
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We must choose a strategy and we need to make the right call early in the project.
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It won't be easy to change later once the application is in production
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and there are lots of application URL references in the wild.
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Almost all Angular 2 projects should use the default HTML 5 style.
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It produces URLs that are easier for users to understand.
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And it preserves the option to do **server-side rendering** later.
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Rendering critical pages on the server is a technique that can greatly improve
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perceived responsiveness when the app first loads.
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An app that would otherwise take ten or more seconds to start
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could be rendered on the server and delivered to the user's device
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in less than a second.
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This option is only available if application URLs look like normal web URLs
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without hashes (#) in the middle.
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Stick with the default unless you have a compelling reason to
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resort to hash routes.
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### HTML 5 URLs and the *<base href>*
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While the router uses the "[HTML 5 pushState](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API#Adding_and_modifying_history_entries)"
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style by default, we *must* configure that strategy with a **base href**
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The preferred way to configure the strategy is to add a
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[<base href> element](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/base) tag
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in the `<head>` of the `index.html`.
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+makeExample('router/ts/index.1.html','base-href')(format=".")
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Without that tag, the browser may not be able to load resources
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(images, css, scripts) when "deep linking" into the app.
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Bad things could happen when someone pastes an application link into the
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browser's address bar or clicks such a link in an email link.
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Some developers may not be able to add the `<base>` element, perhaps because they don't have
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access to `<head>` or the `index.html`.
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Those developers may still use HTML 5 URLs by taking two remedial steps:
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1. Provide the router with an appropriate `APP_BASE_HREF` value.
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1. Use **absolute URLs** for all web resources: css, images, scripts, and template html files.
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:marked
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Learn about the [APP_BASE_HREF](../api/common/index/APP_BASE_HREF-let.html)
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in the API Guide.
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:marked
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### *HashLocationStrategy*
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We can go old-school with the `HashLocationStrategy` by
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providing it as the router's `LocationStrategy` during application bootstrapping.
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First, import the `provide` symbol for Dependency Injection and the
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`Location` and `HashLocationStrategy` symbols from the router.
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Then *override* the default strategy defined in `provideRouter` by
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providing the `HashLocationStrategy` later in the `AppComponent` providers array argument:
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+makeExample('router/ts/app/main.2.ts','', 'main.ts (hash URL strategy)')
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