As mentioned, a component can be used as a responder to a route. So let's say the application routes to the /products route as a result of a user interaction, or programmatically. Angular's way of dealing with this is to associate the /products route with a component. With the help of a component's class and HTML markup, we are able to produce a piece of HTML containing our markup and data rendered together. Pointing out a component as a responder to a route, is done when defining the so-called route map, like so:

// example of what routing might look like

export const appRoutes: Routes = [
  { 
    path: '', 
    component: HomeComponent
  },
  {
    path: 'payments',
    component: ProductsComponent,
    data: { title: 'Products' }
  }
]

Essentially, a route is defined as an object with path properties, pointing out our route, and a component property pointing to the responding component. We can attach other properties to the route, such as data, to give the responding components some initial data to render.