After all these awesome answers, I hope my answer finds someone and helps them out. I wrote a small service to keep track of route history. Here it goes.
import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { NavigationEnd, Router } from '@angular/router';
import { filter } from 'rxjs/operators';
@Injectable()
export class RouteInterceptorService {
private _previousUrl: string;
private _currentUrl: string;
private _routeHistory: string[];
constructor(router: Router) {
this._routeHistory = [];
router.events
.pipe(filter(event => event instanceof NavigationEnd))
.subscribe((event: anyNavigationEnd) => {
this._setURLs(event);
});
}
private _setURLs(event: any) {
if (event instanceof NavigationEnd): void {
const tempUrl = this._currentUrl;
this._previousUrl = tempUrl;
this._currentUrl = event.urlAfterRedirects;
this._routeHistory.push(event.urlAfterRedirects);
}
}
get previousUrl(): string {
return this._previousUrl;
}
get currentUrl(): string {
return this._currentUrl;
}
get routeHistory(): string[] {
return this._routeHistory;
}
}