Angular 2 routing: empty routerLink does not work

Question

I'm configuring my routing and stumbled on this issue.

I currently have these 2 routes:

const appRoutes: Routes = [
    { path: '', component: HomeComponent },
    { path: 'products', component: ProductComponent}
];

Am I not allowed to define an empty route? Because the code below is not working

<a routerlink="">Home</a>

What is working, is the other route products :

<a routerLink="products">Products</a>

I searched the internet but did not yet found a solution. Since I want to keep my url clean, I can't use the redirectTo option to redirect to eg a home path. I want my home url to be www.example.com and not www.example.com/home .

I hope you guys understand my question.

Answer 1

OK, I see what I did wrong.

It was a typo: I used routerlink instead of routerLink in my HTML. So an empty routerLink does work with Angular 2 RC6.