Angular2 router (@angular/router), how to set default route?

Question

How can I set a default route in my @Routes route metadata collection? If you use the angular2 router from @angular/router-deprecated you define the routes in @routeConfig

Answer 1

You set path of route is ''. Example for DashboardComponent is load first.

@Routes([
        { path: '', component: DashboardComponent },
        { path: '/ConfigManager', component: ConfigManagerComponent },
        { path: '/Merge', component: MergeComponent },
        { path: '/ApplicationManagement', component: ApplicationMgmtComponent }
])

Hope it help you.

Answer 2

I just faced the same issue, I managed to make it work on my machine, however the change I did is not the same way it is mentioned in the documentation so it could be an issue of angular version routing module, mine is Angular 7

It only worked when I changed the lazy module main route entry path with same path as configured at the app-routes.ts

routes = [{path:'', redirectTo: '\home\default', pathMatch: 'full'},
           {path: '', 
           children: [{
             path:'home',
             loadChildren :'lazy module path'      
           }]

         }];

 routes configured at HomeModule
 const routes = [{path: 'home', redirectTo: 'default', pathMatch: 'full'},
             {path: 'default', component: MyPageComponent},
            ]

 instead of 
 const routes = [{path: '', redirectTo: 'default', pathMatch: 'full'},
                   {path: 'default', component: MyPageComponent},
                ]

Answer 3

With the current version of angular 2 you can't use '/' on a path or give a name to your route. What you can do is create a route file like "app.routes.ts" and import your components, make sure of the path when importing.

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { DashboardComponent } from './dashboard/dashboard.component';
import { ConfigManagerComponent } from './configManager/configManager.component';
import { ApplicationMgmtComponent } from './applicationMgmt/applicationMgmt.component';
import { MergeComponent } from './merge/merge.component';`

Add:

import {RouterConfig, provideRouter } from '@angular/router';

Then your routes:

const routes:RouterConfig = [      
    { path: 'Dashboard', component: DashboardComponent },
    { path: 'ConfigManager', component: ConfigManagerComponent },
    { path: 'Merge', component: MergeComponent },
    { path: 'ApplicationManagement', component: ApplicationMgmtComponent }
 ];

Then export:

export  const APP_ROUTER_PROVIDERS = [
    provideRouter(routes)]

In your main.ts import APP_ROUTER_PROVIDERS and add bootstrap the router providers to the main.ts like this:

bootstrap(AppComponent,[APP_ROUTER_PROVIDERS]);

Finally, your link will look like this:

li class="nav hidden-xs"><a [routerLink]="['./Dashboard']" routerLinkActive="active">Dashboard</a>/li>

Answer 4

The path should be left blank to make it default component.

{ path: '', component: DashboardComponent },