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How it works...

The children property of our /posts route configuration is itself a new router configuration that we can nest under a specific route in our root router configuration. By setting the path to :id, we are declaring that whatever value is passed as the next segment of the URI beyond /posts will be made available as a parameter in our controller known as params['id'].

We receive the route parameters from the router as an observable that must be resolved before we can retrieve the ID. This sort of asynchronous data handling will be something that we will explore more in Chapter 3, Working with Data, but for now suffice to say that this is just a means of resolving this property so that we have it available to our component. Since ...