Pass NavigationExtras to routerLink in template

you can provide any of the NavigationExtras properties on the routerLink tag itself as individual attributes.

<a [routerLink]="['/user/bob']" [queryParams]="{debug: true}" fragment="education">
  link to user component
</a>

the documentation on RouterLink attributes is clear.

There is no way (for now and afaik) to both have routerLinkActive and skipLocationChange simultaneously and expect the result you want. You can, according to the api, add options, but there is no skipLocationChange option.

You can however use the NavigationExtras from the router in combination with ActivatedRoute and base upon that whether or not the link should be active

update

Since 2.3.0-beta.0 you can add the skipLocationChange option to the routerLink directive:

<li><a [routerLink]="['route1']" skipLocationChange>Route1</a></li>