Can I know what I'm looking at from the URL?

Question

I think on Drupal 7 I had previously used something like menu_get_object() to find out what content I was on. For example, with mysite.com/content/my-page, it would tell me that this was a node, its content type, its ID, etc.

Ideally I'm trying to do it even if the URL is the site's front page, I'd like to be able to reverse engineer what content it is showing me.

Answer 1

You are looking for a route parameter, which is automatically upcasted to an entity object if you are on an entity route.

For example on a node route:

use Drupal\node\NodeInterface;

  $node = \Drupal::routeMatch()->getParameter('node');
  if ($node instanceof NodeInterface) {
    $content_type = $node->getType();
    $id = $node->id();
  }