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Alireza Razinejad
Alireza Razinejad

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Logout with RouteGuard and UrlTree in Angular

We all agreed about not manipulating data inside component or better to say presentation layer.

So I decided to put logout logic inside guard, this way I will be able to just call logout route and done!

For this I've configured my authentication module routes like this:

{
    path: 'login',
    component: AuthComponent,
    data: { registering: false }
  },
  {
    path: 'register',
    component: AuthComponent,
    data: { registering: true }
  },
  {
    path: 'logout',
    component: AuthComponent,
    data: { registering: false },
    canActivate: [LogoutGuard]
  }
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I love to keep things as simple and low as possible 😁

For log out I've added canActivate field and passed the LogoutGuard, the guards have the ability to return UrlTree. It is awesome, let's see how the guard implemented:

@Injectable()
export class LogoutGuard implements CanActivate {
  constructor(private store: Store, private router: Router) {
  }

  canActivate(): UrlTree {
    this.store.dispatch(logout());
    return this.router.createUrlTree(['auth', 'login']);
  }
}
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That's it!

The canActivate method is dispatching logout action from NgRx solution and then returning the URL tree which is created using Router from angular/router library!

After this, all we need, any where in the APP we can just redirect user to auth/logout and expect it work as expected and user will automatically will be redirected to auth/login route.

Thank you for reading 🙏🏽
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