Multiple named views with dynamic routing in angularjs - angularjs

Question

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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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;
}