Navigating Imperatively to a Route

We learned how to navigate our application using the routerLink directive. However, in a real-world application, we also use buttons for navigation. In this lesson, we will learn how to navigate to a route path imperatively using a <button> element.

When we navigate to a wildcard route, the template of the component property is displayed on the screen. However, as we have seen, the address bar of the browser stays on the invalid URL. So, we need to provide a way for the user to escape from this route:

1. Open the page-not-found.component.html file and add a <button> HTML element on line 2: