Change route params without reloading in Angular 2

Question

I'm making a real estate website using Angular 2, Google Maps, etc. and when a user changes the center of the map I perform a search to the API indicating the current position of the map as well as the radius. The thing is, I want to reflect those values in the url without reloading the entire page. Is that possible? I've found some solutions using AngularJS 1.x but nothing about Angular 2.

Answer 1

As of RC6 you can do the following to change URL without change state and thereby keeping your route history

    import {OnInit} from '@angular/core';

    import {Location} from '@angular/common'; 
    // If you dont import this angular will import the wrong "Location"

    @Component({
        selector: 'example-component',
        templateUrl: 'xxx.html'
    })
    export class ExampleComponent implements OnInit {
        
        constructor( private location: Location )
        {}

        ngOnInit() {    
            this.location.replaceState("/some/newstate/");
        }
    }