Angular 2 root's route is always active

Question

Recently I read this useful article about Angular 2 Router and looked at the demo. Everything seemed to be perfect. But when I tried to determine the active route based on

Answer 1

Its not a bug to my knowledge, you need to have a fallback component for / or unknown paths. (most likely HomeComponent)

@Routes([
  { path: '/home', component: HomeComponent },
  { path: '/about', component: AboutComponent },
  { path: '*', name: component: HomeComponent }
]);

This though is using the new Router module (not the deprecated one) and works in rc.0 and rc.1