Creating an Angular application with routing

Whenever we have created a new Angular application through the course of this book so far, the Angular CLI has asked us whether we wanted to add routing, and we have always replied no. Well, it is time to respond positively and enable routing to our Angular application! In the following sections, we will put into practice all the basics that we have learned about routing:

• Scaffolding an Angular application with routing
• Adding route configuration to our Angular application
• Navigating to application routes

At the end of this section, we will have built a simple application with complete routing capabilities.

Scaffolding an Angular application with routing

We will use the Angular CLI to create a new Angular application from scratch. Run the following Angular CLI command to create a new Angular application named my-app:

ng new my-app --routing --style=css  

The preceding command uses runtime options...