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Adam FreemanPro Angular 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3649-9_25

25. Routing and Navigation: Part 1

Adam Freeman1 
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London, UK
 

The Angular routing feature allows applications to change the components and templates that are displayed to the user by responding to changes to the browser’s URL. This allows complex applications to be created that adapt the content they present in an open and flexible way, with minimal coding. To support this feature, there are data bindings and services that can be used to change the browser’s URL, allowing the user to navigate around the application.

Routing is useful as the complexity of a project increases because it allows the structure of an application to be defined separately from the ...

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