Tip #49[target URL in guards]
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Dec 2, 2021
Suppose you develop an Angular application with certain pages with access restricted to logged in users:
In order to improve user experience, you may want to redirect to the target URL once a user has logged in:
When it comes to the canActivate guard, obtaining the target URL within the Auth guard is dead simple:
However, accessing the target URL within the canLoad guard is not so obvious. In order to accomplish the goal you need to call the getCurrentNavigation method and access the extractedUrl property:
The above solution works for both the canActivate and canLoad guards which simplifies the code.
Live example:
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