Angular 2's equivalent to window.location.href?

Question

How can one navigate to a different URL within Angular 2? I know that we can use JavaScript's

window.location.href = '...';

But that seems wrong and would cause a page refresh. I am pretty sure that there should be functionality in Angular 2 that will allow you to move between URLs without refreshing the page. I just can't seem to find it in the documentation.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

According to the documentation, you can use Router and its navigate function to change current state, and also pass the parameters, if neccessary:

import {Component, ...} from 'angular2/angular2';
import {Router, ...} from 'angular2/router';
import {HomeCmp} from '../home/home';

@Component({
  selector: 'app',
  // params of your component here
})
@RouteConfig([
  { path: '/', component: HomeCmp, as: 'MyHome' },
  // your other states here
])

export class AppCmp {
  router: Router;
  constructor(router: Router) {
    this.router = router;
  }
  navigateToHome() {
    // for example, that's how we can navigate to our home route
    this.router.navigate(['./MyHome', {param: 3}]);
  }
}

Here is the link to the official documentation.

And here is a link to seed project with a great example of using Router.