Transition from ng-view to ui-view - angularjs

Question

I have an older app (Angular 1.5.3) and I would like to take advantage of angular-ui-router and components for a few of my pages.
Is it possible to use the old routeProvider in conjunction with the stateProvider that ui-router provides?
IE I would like to transition a few pages to use components here and there as I get time, while leaving the rest.
I am pretty sure using ng-view and ui-view I am having a hard time getting that to work (probably cause you are not supposed to do that). Does that mean I have to transition my entire project from routeProvider to stateProvider all at once?

Answer 1

Is it possible to use the old routeProvider in conjunction with the
stateProvider that ui-router provides?
Short answer
No. Similar structure but different syntax
Long answer
No, but ... You can easily convert ng-view to ui-view a.e. from $routeProvider to $stateProvider.
Consider example ng-view:
$routeProvider
.when('/Book/Add', {
template: '<div class="box" ng-class="classname">Add</div>',
controller: function($scope) {$scope.classname="add"}
})
.when('/Book/Error', {
templateUrl : 'error.html',
controller: 'ErrorController'
})
.otherwise({redirectTo: '/Book/Error'});
Consider example ui-view:
$stateProvider
.state('book', {
url: '/Book',
abstract: true,
templateUrl: 'views/Book.html'
})
.state('book.add', {
url: '/inbox',
template: '<div class="box" ng-class="classname">Add</div>',
controller: function($scope) {$scope.classname="add"}
})
.state('book.error', {
url: '/Error',
templateUrl : 'error.html',
controller: 'ErrorController'
})
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise(function ($injector, $location) {
return '/Book/Error';
});
Keep in mind that routing syntax will change too.
For example:
if ($state.current.name === 'login') {
$state.go('book.add', {});
}
Instead Add we will write <a ui-sref="book.add">Add</a>
And so on ......
As you can see, the syntax is a bit similar. I'm sure you will find a lot of references about power of $stateProvider. For example https://stackoverflow.com/a/21024270/1631379
Hope I answered on your question