How to get the route name when location changes?

Question

I defined some routes:

angular.module(\'myApp\', [])
  .config(\'$routeProvider\', function($routeProvider) {
    $routeProvider.when(\'/aaa\', { templateUrl         


        

Answer 1

Not a very elegant solution, and I have only tested it in Chrome DevTools, but it seems to work:

Object.getPrototypeOf($route.current) === $route.routes['/users/:id];

For others wanting to use this, just replace '/users/:id' with the pattern that you used when you defined your route.

Also if you want to match the otherwise path, just use $route.routes['null']

Disclaimer: This is just a workaround that I found and which works for me. Given that this behavior is not documented, and that I didn't test it to see if it works in all scenarios, use it at your own risk.