Angular routing in electron

Question

I seem to be having some trouble routing pages in my angular electron desktop app. Ive set up the routing the same way you would in an angular application and yet nothing works. Im using routerlink="/home" as the routing in the html files and I have set up the paths to the components in the app.routing.module. I have a sidenav and a toolbar that should route to the same pages as well as a login in register page that should load on app start up and yet nothing happens.

const routes: Routes = [
  {path: 'Insurnace',component:InsuranceProviderComponent},
  {path: '**',component: PageNotFoundComponent},
  {path:'profile',component:ProfileComponent},
  // // {path: '',redirectTo: '/home',pathMatch: 'full'},
  // {path: '**',redirectTo: '/home',pathMatch: 'full'},
  {path:'login',component:LoginComponent},
  {path:'register',component:RegisterComponent},
  {path:'insurance',component:InsuranceProviderComponent},
  {path:'farm',component:FarmComponent}
];
the routing paths 

<mat-toolbar color="primary" class="tool">
  <mat-toolbar-row>
    <button mat-icon-button>
      <mat-icon (click)="sidenav.toggle()">menu</mat-icon>
    </button>
    <h1 id="name">AgriLog</h1>
    <span class="menu-spacer"></span>
    <div>
      <a mat-button [routerLink]="'/home'"><span class="material-icons">
        home_work
        </span>Home</a>
      <a mat-button [routerLink]="'/about'"><span class="material-icons">
        info
        </span>About</a>
      <a mat-button [routerLink]="'/profile'"><span class="material-icons">
        account_circle
        </span>Profile</a>
      <!-- <a mat-button [routerLink]="'/farm'"><span class="material-icons">
        agriculture
        </span>Farm</a> -->
      <a mat-button id="reglog" [routerLink]="'/register'"><span class="material-icons">
        person_add
        </span>Register</a>
      <a mat-button id="reglog" [routerLink]="'/login'"><span class="material-icons">
        login
        </span>Login</a>
      <a mat-button id="reglog" [routerLink]="'/'"><span class="material-icons">
        power_settings_new
        </span>Logout</a>
    </div>
  </mat-toolbar-row>
</mat-toolbar>


<mat-sidenav-container class="side" layout="vertical" layout-fill flex>
  <mat-sidenav #sidenav>
    <mat-nav-list>
      <br>
      <br>
      <br>
      <a mat-list-item [routerLink]="'./farm'"><span class="material-icons">
        home_work
        </span>Home</a>
      <a mat-list-item [routerLink]="'/about'"><span class="material-icons">
        info
        </span>About</a>
      <a mat-list-item [routerLink]="'./profile'"><span class="material-icons">
        account_circle
        </span>Profile</a>
      <!-- <a mat-list-item [routerLink]="'/farm'"><span class="material-icons">
        agriculture
        </span>Farms</a> -->
      <a mat-list-item [routerLink]="'/'"><span class="material-icons">
        power_settings_new
        </span>Logout</a>
      <a mat-list-item (click)="sidenav.toggle()" href="" mat-list-item>Close</a>
    </mat-nav-list>
  </mat-sidenav>
  <mat-sidenav-content>
    <div style="height: 100vh;">
      <router-outlet></router-outlet>
    </div>
  </mat-sidenav-content>
</mat-sidenav-container>

Answer 1

I just had the same issue, in my case, I had an AngularJS application that I was rewriting as Angular

The solution for it was to review the links themselves, for me:

<!-- These DON'T work -->
<a href="./home">Home</a>
<a href="#home">Home</a>
<a [routerLink]="./home">Home</a>

<!-- These ones do-->
<a routerLink="home">Home</a>
<a [routerLink]="'home'">Home</a>