Routing and navigation in Angular 2

Question

I am going through the tutorials for Angular 2 and have been able to get a simple application up and running. Now, I am moving on to the routing and navigation part found h

Answer 1

Old question, but I wanted to provide this suggestion as an alternative for future readers as I preferred the Rewrite method:

Building upon the answers from stas.ivash and Adrian Moisa: I used their URL Rewrite suggestions, but instead of listing out routes, I modified the regex to route everything excluding the files that our Angular 2 CLI generated app needs, with the given extensions (.bundle.js, .bundle.map, etc...):

I can't really speak to the performance implications of using this RegEx solution in a Production environment, but it works well for us on our Dev and Stage environments.