MEAN Cookbook

How its works...

Instead of a traditional href attribute, we tell the router to navigate to a route we've configured by attaching the routerLink directive to it. This directive takes a path string that matches a path configured with our router. Next, we provide the outlet where our content will be presented through when a route is active with the router-outlet directive. With these two elements in place, we can see two folders called Posts and Authors in our app folder; clicking on either link will add the posts works! text for /posts and authors works! for /authors.

By updating the template within our components, we can change the content that shows up when the user navigates to the associated route. We can also change the template in