Angular2 Get router params outside of router-outlet

Question

I have a dashboard application which consists of a treeview component (which lists various content nodes) and a dashboard-edit component which renders some editable content

Answer 1

In the new router (>= RC.0 <=RC.2) this would be

  import 'rxjs/add/operator/first';
  ...

  constructor(private router:Router, private routeSerializer:RouterUrlSerializer, private location:Location) {
    router.changes.first().subscribe(() => {

    let urlTree = this.routeSerializer.parse(location.path());
      console.log('id', urlTree.children(urlTree.children(urlTree.root)[0])[0].segment);
    });
  }

See also Angular 2 RC1: Get parameters from the initial URL used