How to redirect to an external URL in Angular2?

Question

What is the method for redirecting the user to a completely external URL in Angular 2. For example, if I need to redirect the user to an OAuth2 server in order to authenticate, how would I do that?

Location.go(), Router.navigate(), and Router.navigateByUrl() are fine for sending the user to another section (route) within the Angular 2 app, but I can't see how they could be used to redirect to an external site?

Answer 1

You can use this-> window.location.href = '...';

This would change the page to whatever you want..

Answer 2

An Angular approach to the methods previously described is to import DOCUMENT from @angular/common (or @angular/platform-browser in Angular < 4) and use

document.location.href = 'https://stackoverflow.com';

inside a function.

some-page.component.ts

import { DOCUMENT } from '@angular/common';
...
constructor(@Inject(DOCUMENT) private document: any) { }

goToUrl(): void {
    this.document.location.href = 'https://stackoverflow.com';
}

some-page.component.html

<button type="button" (click)="goToUrl()">Click me!</button>

Check out the plateformBrowser repo for more info.

Answer 3

The solution, as Dennis Smolek said, is dead simple. Set window.location.href to the URL you want to switch to and it just works.

For example, if you had this method in your component's class file (controller):

goCNN() {
    window.location.href='http://www.cnn.com/';
}

Then you could call it quite simply with the appropriate (click) call on a button (or whatever) in your template:

<button (click)="goCNN()">Go to CNN</button>

Answer 4

I think you need à target="_blank", so then you can use window.open :

gotoGoogle() : void {
     window.open("https://www.google.com", "_blank");
}

Answer 5

If you've been using the OnDestry lifecycle hook, you might be interested in using something like this before calling window.location.href=...

    this.router.ngOnDestroy();
    window.location.href = 'http://www.cnn.com/';

that will trigger the OnDestry callback in your component that you might like.

Ohh, and also:

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

is where you find the router.

---EDIT--- Sadly, I might have been wrong in the example above. At least it's not working as exepected in my production code right now - so, until I have time to investigate further, I solve it like this (since my app really need the hook when possible)

this.router.navigate(["/"]).then(result=>{window.location.href = 'http://www.cnn.com/';});

Basically routing to any (dummy) route to force the hook, and then navigate as requested.

Answer 6

in newer versions of Angular with window as an any

(window as any).open(someUrl, "_blank");

Answer 7

I used window.location.href = 'http://external-url';

For me the the redirects worked in Chrome, but didn't work in Firefox. The following code resolved my problem:

window.location.assign('http://external-url');

Answer 8

After ripping my head off, the solution is just to add http:// to href.

<a href="http://www.URL.com">Go somewhere</a>

Answer 9

I did it using Angular 2 Location since I didn't want to manipulate the global window object myself.

https://angular.io/docs/ts/latest/api/common/index/Location-class.html#!#prepareExternalUrl-anchor

It can be done like this:

import {Component} from '@angular/core';
import {Location} from '@angular/common';
@Component({selector: 'app-component'})
class AppCmp {
  constructor(location: Location) {
    location.go('/foo');
  }
}

Answer 10

In your component.ts

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

@Component({
  ...
})
export class AppComponent {
  ...
  goToSpecificUrl(url): void {
    window.location.href=url;
  }

  gotoGoogle() : void {
    window.location.href='https://www.google.com';
  }
}

In your component.html

<button type="button" (click)="goToSpecificUrl('http://stackoverflow.com/')">Open URL</button>
<button type="button" (click)="gotoGoogle()">Open Google</button>

<li *ngFor="item of itemList" (click)="goToSpecificUrl(item.link)"> // (click) don't enable pointer when we hover so we should enable it by using css like: **cursor: pointer;**

Answer 11

None of the above solutions worked for me, I just added

window.location.href = "www.google.com"
event.preventDefault();

This worked for me.