Is it possible to avoid page tracking root route to GA by angulartics2?

Question

I'm using angulartics2 for tracking events and for tracking some other info to google analytics.

So, I'm just using

Angulartics2Module.forRoot({ pageTracking: { autoTrackVirtualPages: true } }) - in main app module and Angulartics2GoogleAnalytics.startTracking() - in main app component.

This method tracking all the routes existing in the angular router changes, but I need to avoid tracking the root (/) route.

I've tried to configure angulartics module as { pageTracking: { autoTrackVirtualPages: true, excludedRoutes: ['/'] } } or { pageTracking: { autoTrackVirtualPages: true, excludedRoutes: [/\//] } } but it's not working like I expect.

Is there a simple way to exclude this route from tracking?

Answer 1

One of the options, for those who will be faced with the same problem:

Create separate service which will use global analytics script and just avoid track action when the route matches your case

export class AnalyticsService {
  constructor(private readonly router: Router) {}

  startRouterTracking(): void {
    this.router.events.subscribe(event => {
      if (event instanceof NavigationEnd) {
        const { urlAfterRedirects } = event;

        if (urlAfterRedirects.trim() === '/') {
          return;
        }

        // note: angulartics.pageTrack works incorrect (but by docs should work fine, have no idea why doesn't work)
        gtag('event', 'page_view', { page_path: urlAfterRedirects });
      }
    });
  }
}