Angular 5: remove route history

Question

In my app I have a category page that has links to a various product list pages. If it turns out that when you get to a product list page there is only one product then it

Answer 1

You can use angular routers replaceUrl flag to do this. See api docs for more details here

this.router.navigate(['/view'], { replaceUrl: true });

Answer 2

If using the $location object in order to switch views, a way of doing the same as in @alt255 's post is by using the replace() method after calling path("..."):

$location.path("/").replace();