Angular: How to update queryParams without changing route

📢 Hey Angular enthusiasts! Get ready to level up your skills with this hot 🔥 topic: Updating queryParams without changing the route in Angular.

🤔 Are you facing the challenge of modifying queryParams in your Angular app without triggering a route change? You're not alone. Let's dive into this common issue and discover easy solutions to tackle it head-on. 💪

💡 In AngularJS, you could effortlessly achieve this with $location.search(). However, with the introduction of the new router in Angular, you might be wondering how to achieve the same result.

👉 Let's explore the options we have in Angular and uncover the best approach for updating queryParams dynamically. By the end of this blog post, you'll be equipped with the knowledge to make your app's queryParams dance to your tune! 💃💃

✨The Challenge: Updating queryParams 🔄 without refreshing the page

So, you have an awesome app that lets users filter, order, and do all sorts of cool stuff. Now, you want to ensure that the selected filters are reflected in the URL's queryParams. This way, your users can easily share the URL with others, maintaining all the applied filters. But here comes the catch: you don't want the page to refresh with every filter selection. 🚫

🔍 Is it doable with the new Angular router?

Absolutely! The Angular router provides a built-in solution to handle this situation. 🙌 Here's how you can achieve it:

1. First, inject the ActivatedRoute and Router modules in your component:

import { ActivatedRoute, Router } from '@angular/router';

1. Next, grab the current queryParams using snapshot.queryParamMap:

constructor(private route: ActivatedRoute) {}

ngOnInit() {
  this.route.queryParamMap.subscribe(params => {
    // Access current queryParams here
    console.log(params.get('filters'));
  });
}

1. To update the queryParams, utilize the queryParamsHandling option available in the navigate method provided by the Router module:

constructor(private route: ActivatedRoute, private router: Router) {}

updateFilters() {
  const queryParams = { filters: 'myNewFilter' };
  this.router.navigate([], { queryParams, queryParamsHandling: 'merge' });
}

🎉 And voila! You've successfully updated queryParams without triggering a route change and without seeing that unwanted page refreshing. It's time to celebrate! 🎉

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