Scenario
I am trying to remove the # sign from the url in Angular 2 but I couldn’t find any good explanation about how to remove it without generate any problem.
I remember on AngularJS 1 it was easier adding $locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
Also I would appreciate if you can tell me if this is a good practice (removing #) or could affect the SEO for the application (or improve it).
Defination — LocationStrategy
Applications should use the Router or Location services to interact with application route state. For instance, HashLocationStrategy produces URLs like http://example.com#/foo, and PathLocationStrategy produces http://example.com/foo as an equivalent URL. Enables the Location service to read route state from the browser's URL. Angular provides two strategies: HashLocationStrategy and PathLocationStrategy.
Step 1
Beside the module providers, check your module imports, it can also be overridden by providing the { useHash: true } as the second argument of the RouterModule.forRoot:
imports: [
...
RouterModule.forRoot(routes, { useHash: true }) // remove second argument
]
