I am running into trouble understanding how you can correctly pass parameters using AngularJS.
This is the code I was trying to use in my app.js file for the nested views, however, the nest state never properly renders.
.config(function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
$stateProvider
.state('news', {
url: '/news',
templateUrl: 'templates/news.html',
controller: 'NewsCtrl'
})
.state('news.id', {
url: '/news/:id',
templateUrl: 'templates/news.id.html',
controller: 'NewsCtrl'
});
// if none of the above states are matched, use this as the fallback
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/news');
})
It will try and change the url to #/news/news/:id versus just #/news/:id.
And if I try and change the path to just be the #/news/:id, then the pages do not render correctly.
What is the best approach to achieve these nested views with parameters?
According to ui-route wiki:
When using url routing together with nested states the default
behavior is for child states to append their url to the urls of each
of its parent states.
If you want to have absolute url matching, then you need to prefix
your url string with a special symbol '^'.
So in your case, you should try
.state('news.id', {
url: '^/news/:id',
templateUrl: 'templates/news.id.html',
controller: 'NewsCtrl'
});
Related
Edit: Here is the complete code at Plunker. Though I can not c anything in execution but same code working at local. However gives a console error though
It all works perfect. But due to :id in /news/:id/, i am getting jquery/angular errors in console which can not be tracked anywhere in my code
I can not c What i am doing wrong.
Edit: Solved plunker https://plnkr.co/edit/FWcuBgGpVdMj3CroFrYJ
First of all you are trying to use ui-router but you're including ngRoute script in your plunker. Change it to
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/angular-ui-router/0.3.1/angular-ui-router.min.js"></script>
Then everything should work fine!
I suggest you a few changes...
1. Use ui-sref instead of href because it's much easier to define
ui-sref="post({id:1})" which turns into href="#/news/1"
If you would like to change url some day, then you will have to just change your route file, not each href.
$stateProvider
.state('post', {
url: "news/:id"
or
$stateProvider
.state('post', {
url: "archive/:id"
or
$stateProvider
.state('post', {
url: "whatever/:id"
2. Use abstract state
In your example it's a way better to define abstract state which holds header, content and footer - it's a typical use case.
ui-router
Abstract States
An abstract state can have child states but can not get activated
itself. An 'abstract' state is simply a state that can't be
transitioned to. It is activated implicitly when one of its
descendants are activated.
Some examples of how you might use an abstract state are:
To prepend a url to all child state urls. To insert a template with
its own ui-view(s) that its child states will populate. Optionally
assign a controller to the template. The controller must pair to a
template. Additionally, inherit $scope objects down to children, just
understand that this happens via the view hierarchy, not the state
hierarchy. To provide resolved dependencies via resolve for use by
child states. To provide inherited custom data via data for use by
child states or an event listener. To run an onEnter or onExit
function that may modify the application in someway. Any combination
of the above. Remember: Abstract states still need their own
for their children to plug into. So if you are using an
abstract state just to prepend a url, set resolves/data, or run an
onEnter/Exit function, then you'll additionally need to set template:
"".
Here's a plunker which shows how I would do it.
https://plnkr.co/edit/5FvJaelyxdl5MuALt5VY?p=preview
Hope it helps.
Look at the documentation for ui router named views,
You can use following syntax for using multiple views
$stateProvider
.state('state',{
url: '',
views: {
'header': {
templateUrl: 'views/header.html',
controller: 'headerCtrl'
},
'content': {
template: '<div ui-view=" "></div>', //<-- child templates loaded to here
},
'footer': {
templateUrl: 'views/footer.html',
controller: 'footerCtrl'
}
}
})
.state('state.post', {
url: 'news/:id/:KeyWords'
templateUrl: 'views/post.html' //<-- This goes into content's ui-view
});
I'm guessing you want to keep the header and footer and change content views.
You can achieve this by making this state as parent to all other states
suppose
.state('main',{
abstract: true,
views: {
'header': ... ,
'content': {
template: '<ui-view></ui-view>',
}
'footer': ...
}
})
then all the child views will load their views in the ,
ex: in main.child etc, your template will load in the content's <ui-view></ui-view> tag
If you need to use a custom template depending on keywords you can do the following:
.config(['$routeProvider',
function($routeProvider, $routeParams) {
$routeProvider
.when('/news/:id/:keyWords', {
template: '<div ng-include="url"></div>',
controller: "exampleController"
})
then in the exampleController
function($routeParams, $scope) {
$scope.url = $routeParams.keyWords;
}
Is there any problem putting default code inside of a <ui-view> element. It appears to work, but I can't find anything saying one way or another if it's okay to use or not.
My current usage is I want the "default" view to be a list of items. Upon clicking one of those items, it switches to an "editor" child state, which replaces the <ui-view> content with the editor child.
Are there any gotchas I should be aware of before continuing with this approach?
Here is an example of what I'm looking at:
routes.js:
.config(($stateProvider) => {
$stateProvider
.state('admin', {
url: '/admin',
templateUrl: 'admin.html'
})
.state('admin.items', {
url: '/admin/items',
templateUrl: 'admin.items.html'
})
});
admin.html:
<ui-view>Default Stuff Here</ui-view>
items.html:
<p ng-repeat="item in items">{{item}}</p>
Now, I know I can do:
.state('admin.default', {
url: '',
templateUrl: 'admin.default.html'
});
And then put that would show in ui-view. However, that needlessly adds a new state and template file, when it seems to work just fine putting the would-be contents of admin.default.html directly into the ui-view of admin.html.
In my case, I'm not talking about a completely stateless option using otherwise(), I'm talking about a defined parent state with a default child state.
We generally do not put anything inside <ui-view></ui-view>, instead we create a default state and use that.
routerApp.config(function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/home');
$stateProvider
.state('home', {
url: '/home',
templateUrl: 'home.html'
})
.state('about', {
// we'll get to this in a bit
});
});
Here the default one is /home, like that you can create a default one.
First, As said in the other answer, we never give any data within the ui-view.. But while dealing with the ui-router, you should give all the specific states in .config()
app.config(function($stateProvider,$urlRouterProvider){
$stateProvider
.state('home',{
url : '/home',
controller: 'homeCtrl',
templateUrl : 'home.html'
}).state('login',{
url : '/login',
controller: 'loginCtrl',
templateUrl : 'login.html'
});
//AND HERE YOU PROVIDE THE DEFAULT PLACE WHERE THE USER IS TO BE REDIRECTED
//IN CASE OF IMPROPER URL
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/login');
});
Secondly, If you want to use the <ui-view></ui-view> to hold some data, you certainly can put some data within them.. But make sure that from the state you define, It should not supply any template or templateUrl. So the data within the <ui-view></ui-view> stays as it is.
And third.. Why to keep a default state..
in case you are defining a state admin in your config(), and then in your admin.routes.js file you can define a state as follows..
.state('admin.login',{
url:'',
controller:'loginCtrl',
templateUrl:'admin.login.html'
});
So in case the url is YOURURL/admin It will directly open the login page by default.. so there is no chance of redundancy...
I am using express, angular, and ui-router for my webpage. I would like the url for each user's page to be very simple: www.mysite.com/username
This is similar to Twitter's design. My angular state provider for the user pages looks like this:
$stateProvider
.state('userPage', {
url: '/:username',
templateUrl: 'js/user-page/user-page.html',
controller: 'UserPageCtrl'
});
The only issue is now when I try to navigate to any other page whose state is defined with only one URL part (ie. www.mysite.com/login), the app always parses the URL as a user page (but without being able to find a user).
Is there any way to tell angular to try and load the URL as a defined state before treating the url as a dynamic parameter?
I can simply require all other routes to have two parameters (ie. www.mysite.com/login/userlogin), but that doesn't seem very elegant.
You just need to define the login state first. Order is important.
$stateProvider
.state('login', {
url: '/login',
templateUrl: 'somewhere/login.html',
controller: 'LoginPageCtrl'
},
.state('userPage', {
url: '/:username',
templateUrl: 'js/user-page/user-page.html',
controller: 'UserPageCtrl'
},
});
If a user navigates to /login then a matching state will be searched for. It will check your first state, then the second and so on until a matching state is found. In this case, the login state will match so the searching for another matching state will cease.
I am writing a CRUD app with AngularJS + UI Router.
I want to be able to parse the current location in the browser URL and determine if a ui-router state should be applicable for the current url.
In these sample routes, is there some way to do the if and unless clauses?
(url in browser address bar is http://example.com/notes/1/edit_me)
$stateProvider.state("root", {
url: "",
unless: $location.matches(/\edit_me/)
})
$stateProvider.state("edit", {
url: "/edit",
if: $location.matches(/\edit_me/)
//
})
UPDATE 1
The reason I want to do the above:
Say I am at http://example.com/notes. The routes is
$stateProvider.state("root", {
url: "",
})
However, with the same above ui.route state, when I am at url http://example.com/notes/edit, the root is now "/notes/edit" instead of "/notes"
UPDATE 2
#adam, more explanation of what I am trying to accomplish:
I will try to explain: in your code, for your home state, the (ui.router's) url is / (aka hash syntax #!/)
However, the URL in browser address bar looks like http://example.com/notes/ in one case and http://example.com/notes/edit in another case. (note that the URLs do not contain any #! portion since we have just navigated to the page)
Now the home's / is going to match in both cases of above URL.
But since the second URL ends in notes/edit, I want that the home for this URL should be #!/edit, and not #!/.
Basically I am trying to mix server-side rendered pages (/notes and /notes/edit are rendered by server, not AngularJS)
and client side routing so that no matter which URL we are at, the client can figure out which (ui.router) route applies to the current URL.
Make sense?
Sorry i don't really understand your needs but here's an example of use of ui-router:
$stateProvider
.state('home', {
url: '/',
templateUrl: 'app/main/index.html',
controller: 'MainCtrl'
})
$stateProvider
.state('edit', {
url: '/edit',
templateUrl: 'app/edit/edit.html',
controller: 'EditCtrl'
})
$stateProvider
.state('edit.note', {
url: '/note',
templateUrl: 'app/edit/note.html',
controller: 'NoteCtrl'
});
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/');
i'm not sure if a copy paste will work, but try to adapt it with your case. Hope it will help.
Edit:
I'm afraid that i can't help you more than that. The design of your app with rendered page without angular sounds really special.
Have you tried the example i provide you? If yes, hav you simply format the url by addind
" #!/ " where you need it.
For example:
$stateProvider
.state('edit', {
url: '#!/edit', //or something like, url:'/#!/edit'
templateUrl: 'app/edit/edit.html',
controller: 'EditCtrl'
});
Check this link also may be it will help you:https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/issues/372
ui-sref may help you
But the place to see usefull example for ui-router it's his own doc.
https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router
and here:
http://angular-ui.github.io/ui-router/site/#/api/ui.router
My angular application has multiple pages which users can visit and I would like to hide all other urls and only show users the base url. So imagine my base url is: www.example.com and I have other pages like About, Contact Us etc. Currently, when the user clicks on About, the url changes to www.example.com/about. Is it possible for angular not to add the "/about"? Is this possible using angular js? Also, I have been searching for solutions and have experimented with ui-router.js, is it also possible with this module?
If you are using ui-router, then you can define states without specifying urls like
myApp.config(function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
//
// For any unmatched url, redirect to /state1
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise("/state1");
//
// Now set up the states
$stateProvider
.state('state1', {
url: "/state1",
templateUrl: "state1.html",
controller: 'Controller3'
})
.state('state2', {
templateUrl: "state2.html",
controller: 'Controller2'
})
.state('state3', {
templateUrl: "state3.html",
controller: 'Controller3'
})
});
So by default the url will be /state1. And you can implement navigation by using ui-sref directive in your template like ui-sref="state2" or using $state service in your controller like $state.go('state2').