How to apply canActivate guard on all the routes?
Solution 1:
You can introduce a componentless parent route and apply the guard there:
const routes: Routes = [
{path: '', canActivate:[AuthenticationGuard], children: [
{ path : '', component: UsersListComponent },
{ path : 'add', component : AddComponent},
{ path : ':id', component: UserShowComponent },
{ path : 'delete/:id', component : DeleteComponent },
{ path : 'ban/:id', component : BanComponent },
{ path : 'edit/:id', component : EditComponent }
]}
];
Solution 2:
You can also subscribe to the router's route changes in your app.component's ngOnInit function and check authentication from there e.g.
this.router.events.subscribe(event => {
if (event instanceof NavigationStart && !this.token.isLoggedIn()) {
this.router.navigate(['/login'],{ queryParams: { returnUrl: state.url}});
}
});
I prefer this way of doing any kind of app wide check(s) when a route changes.
Solution 3:
I think you should implement "child routing" which allow you to have a parent (with a path "admin" for example) and his childs.
Then you can apply a canactivate to the parent which will automatically restrict the access to all his child. For example if I want to access "admin/home" I'll need to go throught "admin" which is protectected by canActivate. You can even define a parent with an empty path "" if you want