p.location-badge.
  exported from <a href="/angular2/router.html">angular2/router</a>
  defined in <a href="https://github.com/angular/angular/tree/master/modules/angular2/src/router/router.js#L18">angular2/src/router/router.js (line 18)</a>

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  ## Router
  The router is responsible for mapping URLs to components.
  
  You can see the state of the router by inspecting the read-only field `router.navigating`.
  This may be useful for showing a spinner, for instance.
  
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      Constructs a child router. You probably don't need to use this unless you're writing a reusable component.





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      Update the routing configuration and trigger a navigation.
      
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      Generate a URL from a component name and optional map of parameters. The URL is relative to the app's base href.





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      Navigate to a URL. Returns a promise that resolves to the canonical URL for the route.





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      Given a URL, returns an instruction representing the component graph





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      Register an object to notify of route changes. You probably don't need to use this unless you're writing a reusable component.





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      Navigates to either the last URL successfully navigated to, or the last URL requested if the router has yet to successfully navigate.





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      Subscribe to URL updates from the router





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