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Angular 2 Cookbook

By : Patrick Gillespie, Matthew Frisbie
Book Image

Angular 2 Cookbook

By: Patrick Gillespie, Matthew Frisbie

Overview of this book

Angular 2 introduces an entirely new way to build applications. It wholly embraces all the newest concepts that are built into the next generation of browsers, and it cuts away all the fat and bloat from Angular 1. This book plunges directly into the heart of all the most important Angular 2 concepts for you to conquer. In addition to covering all the Angular 2 fundamentals, such as components, forms, and services, it demonstrates how the framework embraces a range of new web technologies such as ES6 and TypeScript syntax, Promises, Observables, and Web Workers, among many others. This book covers all the most complicated Angular concepts and at the same time introduces the best practices with which to wield these powerful tools. It also covers in detail all the concepts you'll need to get you building applications faster. Oft-neglected topics such as testing and performance optimization are widely covered as well. A developer that reads through all the content in this book will have a broad and deep understanding of all the major topics in the Angular 2 universe.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Angular 2 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Dedication
Preface

Navigating with the Router service


The companion to using routerLink inside the template to navigate is doing it from inside JavaScript. Angular exposes the navigate() method from inside a service, which allows you to accomplish exactly this.

Note

The code, links, and a live example of this are available at http://ngcookbook.herokuapp.com/8004/.

Getting ready

Begin with the application that exists at the end of the How to do it... section of the Navigating with routerLinks recipe.

Your goal is to add an additional route accompanied by a component to this application; also, you wish to be able to navigate between them using links.

How to do it...

Instead of using routerLink, which is the most sensible choice in this situation, you can also trigger a navigation using the Router service. First, add nav buttons and attach some empty click handlers to them:

[app/root.component.ts] 
 
import {Component} from '@angular/core'; 
 
@Component({ 
  selector: 'root', 
  template...