exported from <a href='../router'>angular2/router</a>
defined in <a href="https://github.com/angular/angular/tree/2.0.0-alpha.32/modules/angular2/src/router/router_link.ts#L5-L61">angular2/src/router/router_link.ts (line 5)</a>
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The RouterLink directive lets you link to specific parts of your app.
Consider the following route configuration:
```
@RouteConfig({
path: '/user', component: UserCmp, as: 'user'
});
class MyComp {}
```
When linking to this `user` route, you can write:
```
<a [router-link]="['./user']">link to user component</a>
```
RouterLink expects the value to be an array of route names, followed by the params
for that level of routing. For instance `['/team', {teamId: 1}, 'user', {userId: 2}]`
means that we want to generate a link for the `team` route with params `{teamId: 1}`,
and with a child route `user` with params `{userId: 2}`.
The first route name should be prepended with `/`, `./`, or `../`.
If the route begins with `/`, the router will look up the route from the root of the app.
If the route begins with `./`, the router will instead look in the current component's
children for the route. And if the route begins with `../`, the router will look at the
