How to detect a route change in Angular?

Question

I am looking to detect a route change in my AppComponent.

Thereafter I will check the global user token to see if he is logged in. Then I can redirect t

Answer 1

The answers here are correct for router-deprecated. For the latest version of router:

this.router.changes.forEach(() => {
    // Do whatever in here
});

or

this.router.changes.subscribe(() => {
     // Do whatever in here
});

To see the difference between the two, please check out this SO question.

Edit

For the latest you must do:

this.router.events.subscribe(event: Event => {
    // Handle route change
});