How do I get the absolute path of the current page in Angular 2?

Question

I've essentially run into this problem, where I need a reference to the current route to use gradients, but have yet to figure out how to translate the solution into Angular 2.

Answer 1

constructor(location:Location) {
  console.log(location.prepareExternalUrl(location.path()));
}

https://angular.io/api/common/Location#prepareexternalurl

As the documentation says:

Normalizes an external URL path. If the given URL doesn't begin with a leading slash ('/'), adds one before normalizing. Adds a hash if HashLocationStrategy is in use, or the APP_BASE_HREF if the PathLocationStrategy is in use.

It means that you have to explicitly specify APP_BASE_HREF to get an absolute path in Angular 5+.

window.location provides more information

Plunker example