Angular2 - retrieve current url

Question

I just updated to Angular 2.0.0-rc5 and my listener for the current page url seems to have been deprecated.

Previously I could access it by subscribing to the following:

Answer 1

Look for router.events and subscribe to that. The typical event will be NavigationEnd and this will give you the url information that you need.

router.events.subscribe(x => {
            if(x instanceof NavigationEnd) {
                console.log(x.url);
                console.log(x.urlAfterRedirects);
            }
        });

Note that there are other kind of events too, but the basic scenario uses NavigationEnd.