Adding the canActivate Route Guard to the Router Module
Explore how to create and configure the canActivate route guard in Angular to secure routes. Understand protecting components by restricting access based on user login state, and learn how to integrate this guard into your routing module.
What is the canActivate route guard?
The canActivate guard is a default route guard interface provided by Angular. It checks if a user can navigate a specific route or helps prevent access to a particular route. The canActivate guard usually returns a boolean value and an
Integrating the canActivate route guard
To integrate the canActivate guard into our project, we need to take the following steps explained below:
Step 1: Creating the guard
To create the guard, we need to run the command below at the root of our Angular application:
ng generate guard auth/auth