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Mastering Angular Components

You're reading from   Mastering Angular Components Build component-based user interfaces with Angular

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293532
Length 402 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Gion Kunz Gion Kunz
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Component-Based User Interfaces FREE CHAPTER 2. Ready, Set, Go! 3. Dealing with Data and State 4. Thinking in Projects 5. Component-Based Routing 6. Keeping up with Activities 7. Components for User Experience 8. Time Will Tell 9. Spaceship Dashboard 10. Putting Things to the Test 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

An introduction to the Angular router

The router in Angular is closely coupled to our component tree. The design of the Angular router is built on the assumption that a component tree is directly related to our URL structure. This is certainly true for most of the cases. If we have a component B, which is nested within a component A, the URL to represent our location would very likely be /a/b.

To specify the location in our template where we'd like to enable the router to instantiate components, we can use so-called outlets. Simply by including a <router-outlet> element, we can mark the location in our template, where the Angular router will instantiate components.

Based on some route configuration that we can provide in our main module, the router then decides which components need to be instantiated and placed into the corresponding router outlets. Routes can also...

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