Authentication routing is not functioning as expected

[Rory Smith]

After initialising an angular-material-fullstack project today, it became clear that the authentication is not working as it should. Whenever I try to get to /signup, I get redirected to /login, and on the main page, the app seems to be totally confused about whether the user is logged in or not, because the dropdown in the shell displays the icons for login/logout, but no text.

This functionality works as expected on angular-fullstack.

Any idea what the problem is here?