What is Angular Router and Router module?

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What is Angular Router?

An Angular Router is a tool, library that configures navigations between states and views within your Angular app.

The Routing library is written and maintained by the Angular Core Team.

Angular router has own library package - @angular/router.

import {Routes, RouterModule,}  from '@angular/router';

The basic concept of Angular Router and It allows you to -

1.      Redirect a URL to another URL

2.      Resolve data before a page is displayed

3.      Run scripts when a page is activated or deactivated

4.      Lazy load parts of our application

The router supports both styles with two LocationStrategy providers -

1.      PathLocationStrategy— this is the default style.

2.      HashLocationStrategy— adds the route path to the hash (#) in the browser’s URL.

What is Router module?

The Router module is a module that provides the necessary service providers and directives for navigating one view to other in the application.

For more detail kindly refer the link - https://www.code-sample.com/2018/05/angular-5-6-7-routing-and-navigation.html