Angular Routing with ASP MVC - angularjs

I have an MVC test project I am working on to see if I can get angular routing to work with it.
What I mean by work with it is that I want to be able to have a landing page for my app: www.testapp.com
Then when people log in I want MVC to route them to testapp.com/Dashboard/#/and then I want to be able to use ng-view to load pages with Angualar like so:
testapp.com/Dashboard/#/PageOne, testapp.com/Dashboard/#/PageTwo, etc.
Here is what I have tried:
main.js:
angular.module('App', ['ngRoute', 'ngResource']);
angular.module('App').config(function ($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider
.when('/Dashboard', {
templateUrl: 'Dashboard/Index'
})
.when('/PageOne', {
templateUrl: 'Dashboard/PageOne'
})
});
~/Views/Home/Index.cshtml was my landing page that did not use angular routing it just had ActionLinks to Login and Register
~/Views/Dashboard/Index.cshtml is where I used ng-app and ng-view and I had links like so: Dashboard, Page One
The problem is that when I go to testapp.com/Dashboard when it loads the URL turns into testapp.com/Dashboard#/ rather than testapp.com/Dashboard/#/
The other problem is that when I click on my links it goes straight back to the Home/Index and the URL is like so: testapp.com/#/PageOne but the Home is being displayed
in my RouteConfig.cs file it is just the default:
public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");
routes.MapRoute(
name: "Default",
url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
);
}
So my question is what is wrong with my code here that makes it not function like I want it to? What do I have to add/change?
Thank you!

So I figured out the issue was with the way I was writing my links. Once my actual angular app was loaded (I was at the Dashboard rather than the landing page where angular is initialized) I had to change my anchor tag hrefs from \#\{Route} to '/Dashboard/#/{Route}'. Here is my updated angular route config:
angular.module('App').config(function ($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider
.when('/', {
templateUrl: 'Index'
})
.when('/PageOne', {
templateUrl: 'PageOne'
})
});
This completely fixed my problem so I can now have angular routing take over the show when it needs to and also have MVC ActionLinks in my application as well.
Hope this helps someone else!
NOTE
I did not change anything in my MVC RouteConfig.cs you can leave the default. Also I had to get rid of ViewStart because that was messing things up.

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Page refresh redirects to home page

I have created a form in angularjs. I has four pages like information, education, experience and privacy. while filling the details in education if the page is refreshed it redirects to information that is starting page of the form. If the page is refreshed I want to stay in current page. Give me any suggestion. My routing code given below
(function() {
"use strict";
xyz.config(['$stateProvider',
function ($stateProvider) {
'use strict';
$stateProvider
.state('xyz.basicInfo', {
url: '/Information',
views: {
'Form': {
title: "Information", 
templateUrl: '../views/information.html',
controller: 'InformationController'
}
},
resolve: {
loadFile: ['$ocLazyLoad', function($ocLazyLoad) {
return $ocLazyLoad.load(['intlTelInput']);
}]
}
})
.state('xyz.education', {
url: '/education',
views: {
'Form': {
title: "Education",
templateUrl: '../views/education.html',
controller: 'educationController'
}
}
})
}])
}).call(this);
This kind of issue is typically a web server issue. Angular apps are Single Page Apps (SPAs) so any request for an HTML file, regardless of path, should serve up index.html (index.html being the single page)
If for example, your route is /my/route and you refresh the web server, by default, will try to serve up index.html inside a folder called /my/route
So you need to override this default behaviour such that your webserver always servers the root index.html and then your routes will work as expected.
How to do this depends on your web server - if its a node server, apache, nginx, webpack-dev-server, etc
Heres a thread talking about how to do this on Apache ... https://askubuntu.com/questions/484986/how-do-i-make-apache-serve-a-single-static-page-no-matter-what-the-entered-url-i

How to : Angularjs route refresh

I trying to make an application that contains multiple views as template. The templates are under the js/app/pages/ folder. And I have 2 templates to show and route. My routing section is:
var app = angular.module("myApp", ['ngRoute', 'ngMaterial']);
app.config(function ($routeProvider, $locationProvider) {
$routeProvider
.when('/Page', {
templateUrl: 'js/app/pages/Page.html',
controller: 'pageController',
reloadOnSearch: false
})
.when('/Settings', {
templateUrl: 'js/app/pages/Settings.html',
controller: 'settingsController',
reloadOnSearch: false
})
.when('/Admin', {
templateUrl: 'js/app/pages/Admin.html',
controller: 'adminController',
reloadOnSearch: false
})
.otherwise({
redirectTo: '/Page'
});
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
});
And my html file contains
<div id="menu"></div>
<div ng-view></div>
Menu div contains menu elements that route me between the pages. For example, when I run this site on browser, URL will be localhost/Page, and when I click the settings button URL change with localhost/Settings. But when I press the F5 button in my keyboard. Page gives me error The resource cannot be found..
I search on the internet "how to refresh routing page in angularjs" and find some solutions but I couldn't make them work for me. I tried $route.reload() and $routeUpdate() method but that does not work for me. Maybe I'm wrong in something.
If you are using Apache server this should work run this in terminal
sudo a2enmod rewrite && sudo service apache2 restart
works for me
Solved! I couldn't manage refresh with ngRoute. Then i convert it into ui-router. I declare the states by urls. And the refresh is working. Thanks for comments and answers. Maybe this will help someone.
Actually when you are pressing F5 from keyboard, it is hitting to your server for that page, not angular because you don't have any # sign between your URL. For angular, URL should be like as - localhost/#/Page
Use html5mode
A great article about it here
to init its very simple
.config(function($routeProvider, $locationProvider) {
// other routes here
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
});
When you "reload a page", you whole app will reinit again. That means if you are not on the main page, and the sub route you are at missing some data, you will likely get an error.
You should look into resolve attribute for routes, so for example,
.when('/Settings', {
templateUrl: 'js/app/pages/Settings.html',
controller: 'settingsController',
reloadOnSearch: false,
resolve: {
resourceone: function(){return whatsneeedtoberesolvehere;}
}
})
that way no matter where your app is reloaded, it will have the necessary data to boot the page
Just keep the # in URL, you don't have to put extra effort to manage reloads etc. you can think a "#" in URL represent a specific state in single page application.
Otherwise it can be managed by module rewriting, that map the url with hashed version URL internally for AngularJs app.

Angular Js + UI router, more than one module each with each owns ui routes config - how?

I have a main app on my application, called "bionico", this app utilizes UI-router
It has it's own $stateProvider configurations!
And that's fine, it works
BUT I needed to create a new module (cuz I'm trying to insert a step-by-step form on my application, you can find the code here: https://scotch.io/tutorials/angularjs-multi-step-form-using-ui-router)
To make this step-by-step form I need to create a new module with it's own $stateProvider configurations, the thing is that it doesn't work, I have included this module called "bionico.formApp" in my main app like this:
angular.module('bionico', ['ui.router', other modules, 'bionico.formApp'])
And that works fine, if I try to use a controller inside "bionico.formApp" it will also work fine. This is the code for this module:
// create our angular app and inject ngAnimate and ui-router
// =============================================================================
angular.module('bionico.formApp', ['ngAnimate', 'ui.router', ])
// configuring our routes
// =============================================================================
.config(function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
$stateProvider
.state('form', {
url: '/form',
templateUrl: 'templates/campaignForm/form.html',
controller: 'formCtrl'
})
// nested states
// each of these sections will have their own view
// url will be nested (/form/profile)
.state('form.profile', {
url: '/profile',
templateUrl: 'templates/campaignForm/form-profile.html'
})
// url will be /form/interests
.state('form.interests', {
url: '/interests',
templateUrl: 'templates/campaignForm/form-interests.html'
})
// url will be /form/payment
.state('form.payment', {
url: '/payment',
templateUrl: 'templates/campaignForm/form-payment.html'
})
// catch all route
// send users to the form page
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/form/profile');
})
// our controller for the form
// =============================================================================
.controller('formCtrl', function($scope) {
// we will store all of our form data in this object
$scope.formData = {};
$scope.test = "FUNCIONA";
// function to process the form
$scope.processForm = function() {
alert('awesome!');
};
});
But to make this form work I need to use <div ui-view></div> and when I put this on my file nothing happens, and I think it's because the app is using my main module "bionico" $stateProvider configurations and not "bionico.formApp"
Here is my html code:
<div ng-controller="formCtrl">
<!-- views will be injected here -->
<div ui-view></div>
{{test}}
the {{test}} from formCtrl works fine, it is printing the variable on my screen, but like I said ui-view is not. Is there a way to tell angular that I want to use "bionico.formApp" configurations and not the configs from my main module?
How would you solve this?
Like I think I have to tell angular that from that moment on I want to use "bionico.formApp" but I don't know how to do it.
I've tried
<div ng-app="bionico.formApp"> but nothing happened, not even errors
I saw then on stack over flow that I have to bootstrap it manually, but then I got an error saying that "bionico.formApp" had already been bootstraped
Update
People suggested that I only needed to rout stuff in only one module, but I needed two different default routs one for my main application and one or my form, but that wouldn't work.
and the reason why I was trying to make this work was because I needed a step by step form (wizard) on my application like this one: https://scotch.io/tutorials/angularjs-multi-step-form-using-ui-router)
But I've decided it is not worth the hassle, I'll try to find another wizard for angular js
I'm using now this walktrough wizard:
https://github.com/mgonto/angular-wizard
It was easy to install and it is very easy to customize the template, I recommend!

ionic/angularjs app construction

When making an ionic app what is the best method of creating different pages of information?
Right now I have separate html documents for each page and a button pointing to each html document; however, I feel like angular/ionic provides a better way of doing so that I missed. For example, the app I am making has a main page with buttons for 5 places. Each button loads a completely new html document with info about the place labeled on the button.
If it is too much to explain, a link answering what I am asking is fine
Thanks
What you want are angular templates. You can write a template once, and then pass in information from the controller to take the place of the angular bindings. You have one master template, that changes the angular bindings depending on which information you pass it in the controller.
For example, you could have your application load in partial templates for each location, and display them all on your main page without having to hit a new html document. Check out the example in the Angular Tutorial.
And the Live Demo
You can do it by uiROUTER, For example: angular.module('ionicApp', ['ionic']) .config(function ($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) { $stateProvider .state('menu', { abstract: 'true', templateUrl: 'templates/menu.html', controller: 'MenuCtrl' }) / ... / .state('menu.work', { url: '/work', views: { menuContent: { templateUrl: 'templates/work.html', controller: 'WorkCtrl' } } }); $urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/work'); });

Angular App with more than one entry point

so, i'm writing a really simple application using angular, and i basically just want to be able to route my requests to their respective pages but also use those pages as views such that the following views:
-- html
main-app.ejs
-- views
faq.ejs
about.ejs
home.ejs
register.ejs
are available by going through the main app, but the user can also get there just by putting in the following respectively:
/faq
/about
/home
/register
any ideas?
I was thinking something like this could work:
app.get('/views/:viewName', routes.view);
app.get('/:app?', routes.app);
Where I basically just point the request to the main app, but that doesn't work at all because when the page loads and the following router takes hold:
app.config(function ($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider.when('/', {
templateUrl: '/views/home',
controller: 'sliderController'
}).when('/faq', {
templateUrl: '/views/faq',
controller: 'faqController'
});
});
the default page always loads

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