Angular 4 Routing - All Routes are redirected to Default Route

Question

I've setup a simple routing for my angular 4 app that consists of a sidemenu created using Tetradata Covalent and Angular Material i'm using this Angular 2/4 Authentication tutorial to handle login, however all child router links are redirecting to the default page(dashboard). Any help or advice would be highly appreciated.

app.routing.ts

export const APP_ROUTES: Routes = [
  {path: 'login', component: HomeComponent},
  { path: '', redirectTo: 'mainpage', pathMatch: 'full' },
  { path: '**', redirectTo: 'mainpage' },
  {
    path: 'mainpage',
    component: MainPageComponent,
    canActivate:[AuthGuard],
    children: [
      {path: 'order', component: OrderComponent},
      {path: 'dashboard', component: DashboardComponent},
      {path: 'stock', component: StockComponent},
      {path: 'Report/sales', component: SalesComponent},
      {path: '', redirectTo: 'dashboard', pathMatch: 'full'}
      {path: '**', redirectTo: 'dashboard', pathMatch: 'full'}
    ]
  }
];

page.component.html

<td-layout>
  <td-navigation-drawer flex sidenavTitle="EzyAgric" logo="assets:logo" name="Akorion" email="info.akorion.com">
<md-nav-list>
      <a md-list-item [routerLink]="['dashboard']">
        <md-icon>dashboard</md-icon>
        Dashboard</a>
      <md-divider></md-divider>
      <h3 md-subheader>Orders</h3>
      <a md-list-item [routerLink]="['stock']">
        <md-icon>archive</md-icon>
        Stock
      </a>
      <a md-list-item [routerLink]="['order']">
        <md-icon>shopping_cart</md-icon>
        Received Orders
      </a>
  </td-navigation-drawer>
  <td-layout-nav [toolbarTitle]="getTitle()" >
    <div class="example-scrolling-content">
      <router-outlet></router-outlet>
    </div>
  </td-layout-nav>
</td-layout>

AuthGuard.ts

@Injectable()
export class AuthGuard implements CanActivate {
  constructor(private router: Router) { }

  canActivate(route: ActivatedRouteSnapshot, state: RouterStateSnapshot) {
    if (localStorage.getItem('currentUser')) {
      // logged in so return true
      return true;
    }

    // not logged in so redirect to login page with the return url
    this.router.navigate(['/login'], { queryParams: { returnUrl: state.url }});
    return false;
  }
}

console output

Halfcocked

Answer 1

In your app.routing.ts where you define your routes move the wildcard line to the end after you have defined all your routes.

app.routing.ts

export const APP_ROUTES: Routes = [
  {path: 'login', component: HomeComponent},
  { path: '', redirectTo: 'mainpage', pathMatch: 'full' },
  {
    path: 'mainpage',
    component: MainPageComponent,
    canActivate:[AuthGuard],
    children: [
      {path: 'order', component: OrderComponent},
      {path: 'dashboard', component: DashboardComponent},
      {path: 'stock', component: StockComponent},
      {path: 'Report/sales', component: SalesComponent},
      {path: '', redirectTo: 'dashboard', pathMatch: 'full'}
      {path: '**', redirectTo: 'dashboard', pathMatch: 'full'}
    ]
  },
  { path: '**', redirectTo: 'mainpage' } // this needs to be after other routes
];

Since it is a wild card route angular will hit this route before hitting any other route since routes order matter.

Haemocyte

So now the routes show that they are loading but still redirect after 1 second – Halfcocked

What do your new router events look like? – Stamina

Oh sorry turns out i had setup some kind of manual redirection in component ngOnInit thanks that worked heres the upvote – Halfcocked

@Stamina and i learned this from your course.Thank you so much for your wonderful course..:) – Haemocyte

I am so proud! :-) – Stamina

Answer 2

You must change Your code similar:

export const APP_ROUTES: Routes = [
  { path: '', redirectTo: 'mainpage', pathMatch: 'full' },
  { path: 'login', component: HomeComponent },  
  {
    path: 'mainpage',
    component: MainPageComponent,
    canActivate:[AuthGuard],
    children: [
      {path: 'order', component: OrderComponent},
      {path: 'dashboard', component: DashboardComponent},
      {path: 'stock', component: StockComponent},
      {path: 'Report/sales', component: SalesComponent}
    ]
  },
  { path: '**', redirectTo: 'mainpage' }
];

Singe