How do I navigate to a parent route from a child route?

Question

My problem is quite classic. I have a private part of an application which is behind a login form. When the login is successful, it goes to a child route for th

Answer 1

This seems to work for me as of Spring 2017:

goBack(): void {
  this.router.navigate(['../'], { relativeTo: this.route });
}

Where your component ctor accepts ActivatedRoute and Router, imported as follows:

import { ActivatedRoute, Router } from '@angular/router';