Selecting a LocationStrategy for path construction
A simple but important choice for your application is which type of LocationStrategy you want to make use of. The following two URLs are equivalent when their respective LocationStrategy is selected:
PathLocationStrategy:foo.com/barHashLocationStrategy:foo.com/#/bar
Note
The code, links, and a live example of this are available at http://ngcookbook.herokuapp.com/1355/.
How to do it...
Angular 2 will default to PathLocationStrategy. Should you want to select HashLocationStrategy, it can be imported from the @angular/common module. Once imported, it can be listed as a provider inside an object literal:
[app/app.module.ts]
import {NgModule} from '@angular/core';
import {BrowserModule} from '@angular/platform-browser';
import {RouterModule, Routes} from '@angular/router';
import {RootComponent} from './root.component';
import {DefaultComponent} from './default.component';
import {ArticleComponent} from...
