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CanActivate

Interface that a class can implement to be a guard deciding if a route can be activated. If all guards return true, navigation continues. If any guard returns false, navigation is cancelled. If any guard returns a UrlTree, the current navigation is cancelled and a new navigation begins to the UrlTree returned from the guard.

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Deprecated: Class-based Route guards are deprecated in favor of functional guards. An injectable class can be used as a functional guard using the inject function: canActivate: [() => inject(myGuard).canActivate()].

      
      interface CanActivate {
canActivate(route: ActivatedRouteSnapshot, state: RouterStateSnapshot): MaybeAsync<GuardResult> }

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Description

The following example implements a CanActivate function that checks whether the current user has permission to activate the requested route.

      
      class UserToken {}
class Permissions {
  canActivate(): boolean {
    return true;
  }
}

@Injectable()
class CanActivateTeam implements CanActivate {
  constructor(private permissions: Permissions, private currentUser: UserToken) {}

  canActivate(
    route: ActivatedRouteSnapshot,
    state: RouterStateSnapshot
  ): MaybeAsync<GuardResult> {
    return this.permissions.canActivate(this.currentUser, route.params.id);
  }
}
    

Here, the defined guard function is provided as part of the Route object in the router configuration:

      
      @NgModule({
  imports: [
    RouterModule.forRoot([
      {
        path: 'team/:id',
        component: TeamComponent,
        canActivate: [CanActivateTeam]
      }
    ])
  ],
  providers: [CanActivateTeam, UserToken, Permissions]
})
class AppModule {}
    

Methods