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Learning Angular

You're reading from   Learning Angular A no-nonsense beginner's guide to building web applications with Angular 10 and TypeScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839210662
Length 430 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Aristeidis Bampakos Aristeidis Bampakos
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Angular
2. Chapter 1: Building Your First Angular App FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to TypeScript 4. Section 2: Components – the Basic Building Blocks of an Angular App
5. Chapter 3: Component Interaction and Inter-Communication 6. Chapter 4: Enhance Components with Pipes and Directives 7. Chapter 5: Structure an Angular App 8. Chapter 6: Enrich Components with Asynchronous Data Services 9. Section 3: User Experience and Testability
10. Chapter 7: Navigate through Components with Routing 11. Chapter 8: Orchestrating Validation Experiences in Forms 12. Chapter 9: Introduction to Angular Material 13. Chapter 10: Giving Motion to Components with Animations 14. Chapter 11: Unit test an Angular App 15. Section 4: Deployment and Practice
16. Chapter 12: Bringing an Angular App to Production 17. Chapter 13: Develop a Real-World Angular App 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Separating our app into feature routing modules

At this point, we have set up the route configuration so that routing works the way it should. However, this approach doesn't scale so well. As our application grows, more and more routes may be added to AppRoutingModule. Thus, we should create a separate feature module for our components that will also have a dedicated routing module.

We have already learned how to create a new Angular module in Chapter 5, Structure an Angular App. We will use the same generate Angular CLI command, but we will pass a different option to create the routing module as well:

ng generate module heroes --routing

The --routing parameter instructs the Angular CLI to create a routing module along with the heroes feature module:

Figure 7.5 – The heroes folder structure

Figure 7.5 – The heroes folder structure

The Angular CLI names the routing module file after the name of the actual feature module, appending the -routing suffix. This is a convention...

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