Angular 2 Cli adding routes to existing project

Question

I have an existing Angular 2 App. Now I would like to use routing for navigation. Is there a way to add routing to an existing Angular 2 Project using the Angular 2 Cli?

Lets say I have an Component "test" and want a route to this in a global Scope.

Answer 1

I found the simplest way so far. I know this is already answered and accepted also but it is not working in the current scenarios because ng init is removed so if you have forgotten to add routing while creating new project than you can add routes to existing project as following steps. Hope it will be helpful.

First of all add app-routing.module.ts file in your src --> app folder

app-routing.module.ts file would be like this

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { Routes, RouterModule } from '@angular/router';
import { HomeComponent } from './home/home.component';     // Add your component here
import { AboutComponent } from './about/about.component';  // Add your component here

//This is my case 
const routes: Routes = [
    {
        path: '',
        component: HomeComponent
    },
    {
        path: 'about',
        component: AboutComponent
    }
];

@NgModule({
  imports: [RouterModule.forRoot(routes)],
  exports: [RouterModule]
})
export class AppRoutingModule { }

Then Import app-routing.module.ts file in app.module.ts file as follow.

app.module.ts

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

import { AppRoutingModule } from './app-routing.module'; // Added here

Now you will be able to perform routing task.