Issues in removing # from angular routes - angularjs

I was trying to preetify my URL in angular js app and remove the hash. What I did was added in line in my app.config function:
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
But this issues I am still facing are:
If I open a page like this $window.location.href = '#/sales'; the slash is encoded and page does not opens.
If I directly type in my browser localhost:9000/sales without hash the page does not opens.
Can someone please help.
To add to it, my base url is: http://localhost:9000

You should choose just one option: either you have hashes in the url, or not.
If hashes are ok - then just remove $locationProvider.html5Mode(true); from your code.
If you really want your app to work w/o hashes in the url then follow this (probably incomplete) checklist:
Remove # from any urls on your page
Configure your web-server to feed the same webapp on all requests which your webapp recognizes. I.e. If your webapp routing knows what to do when user agent is requesting /sales - then make sure that your web-server or backend platform you are using serves the page with your web-app

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Stop Laravel from loading new URL and let angular handle it

So, I have a single page angular app that is opened when I navigate to a URL. If I use the links, moving around within the app is fine - new URLs load just fine. However, if I enter a new URL in the browser URL window and hit enter, the back end framework - Laravel in my case - tries to resolve the URL.
How do I either
Intercept the URL change so that I can simple direct it to the appropriate state in the app
Tell Laravel to ignore the new URL and let the angular app handle it
Thanks
If I understand your question correctly, you don't want Laravel handles it because the routes is defined in javascript, not in server side. If that's the case, you can simply solve it by using wildcard.
Let's say in your laravel's routes you have this line to load your app, views, javascripts etc:
Route::get('/', 'PagesController#index');
You can use the wildcard modifier to ignore whatever url that has appended, and always serve your index view instead:
Route::get('/{any?}', 'PagesController#index')->where('any', '.*');
I'm not sure why it's not in the latest documentation, but you can find the docs at Laravel 5.2 doc regarding regular expression constraints

How to reload angular single page subpages and don't lose content

I'm using Spring Boot 1.4.0.M2, Angular 1.5.8, Angular UI Router 0.3.1, and Thymeleaf templating.
What I want to do is to remove hash # from my url I want to something like this:
http://localhost:8080/#/contact
look like this
http://localhost:8080/contact
What I did:
added to my angular configuration.js file something like this:
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
$locationProvider.hashPrefix('!');
added to my userIndex.html head
base href="/userIndex.html"/>
This userIndex.html contains all js libraries, this is my single page index page it contains imports like this:
<script type="text/javascript" th:src="#{/js/lib/jquery.min.js}" />
and UI router:
<div ui-view="" class="ui-container"></div>
After this hash # disappear from URL, but!
I open my web page http://localhost:8080/ than click link to for example "/contact" and go to sub page URL look perfect http://localhost:8080/contact no hash and page look like this.
And that when I press F5 to reload web page http://localhost:8080/contact and than content look like this:
Starting from http://localhost:8080/ and clicking link to /contact make everything ok, trying to enter URL http://localhost:8080/contact present raw html without css, js etc. userIndex.html is not loaded is it possible to load it to sub page like /contact?
This is how my project and template config looks like
Is any body here who could help me to fix this reload thing? Maybe it is something wrong with my spring boot template config?
The difference between the two ways is that in the first case you download the userIndex.html file and afterwards angular is intercepting your location change on client side to render the contact state.
In the second case, you are requesting the contact path from the server directly. This is where your viewController configuration comes into play and returns the probably not wanted html instead of the index page which would be required to run your angular app.
For node.js there is a concept called historyApiFallback that registers a 404 error handler to return the index.html page (e.g. this express module: https://github.com/bripkens/connect-history-api-fallback). In your case you need to avoid the clash between your registered viewControllers and the routing names used in the angular app. See this question for a similar case: How can I use Angular2 PathLocationStrategy in a Spring Boot application?
All in all it's not that convenient to use the PathLocationStrategy / html5Mode even if it is essential if you later want to have the possibility to also do server side rendering.
You need to configure server side routing. So when you removed the hash and you could go to the contact and it worked, but when you refreshed it lost the content because after refreshing the page your server tried to find contact.html and if it find in your case it served only that without the css and other stuff. Depend's on your server you can configure your server to fallback to index.html all the time so when it can not find the requested page. and set base to / otherwise server will go to the root of directory and find the contact.html and serve it to you and it will be raw without css. I hope i could explain it to you. You can search for the url-re-writer for your server.

Single page application using AngularJS

I am working at a SPA using Flask(with jinja) and AngularJS. Everything works fine, but when the application is in a given state and I try to refresh the page in browser, the server responds with 404 response: "error": "Not found". Is there a way to make this work in a proper way when trying to access a page of the SPA application through the URL?
This may depend on how your dev http server is setup:
It should be set to always load the default page which is index.html such that the angular engine will load and run and only then it will serve the other routes (states) like localhost/state, otherwise the angular router would not be able to resolve the url since it is not loaded (letting the http server handle the request, serving a 404 Page Not Found)
The http servers sometimes serve only one level deep url's like localhost/state, not localhost/state/param and you need to change some settings to make it work, but I think this is beyond the scope of your question :)
You can use a hasher in SPA. You need to parse hash string before initializing view model and based upon the value of hash set your current visible page and then bind the view mode.
You need to have a rule to always return your SPA index.html page for any routes that match your angular routes. I'm not sure what your web server is, apache or nginx or whatever but you should be able to find instructions on how to match those requests back to index.html.
You must have enabled html5 mode to true in in your angular js app. Set that to false will solve your problem.

Access Angular sub-routes without webserver

If I have an Angular app that's located at http://example.com and I have templates that I want to be able to access at example.com/contact, example.com/demo, etc, is there anyway to access one of those links directly in the browser (say example.com/contact) without the use of a web server? Or will I have to change my url structure to match example.com#contact.
I have a node server already but I'd prefer to use a hosting option that didn't require it.
EDIT:
To clarify, this is not about getting the routes to be pretty. I already have html5mode enabled so that if I were to click nav buttons for example, the url gets nicely changed without going to another page. This is about directly typing in a "sub-route" into the address bar, something like example.com/demo and hitting enter.
what you want is to basically remove the # in the url. you can do that by enabling html5mode in angular.
in your app.config add below line
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
read more about it here

Removing the hashtag from AngularJS when working with SailsJS

I'm getting really frustrated with configuring the Routing on our app, which is using sailsJS and angularJS.
The problem is, that the browser doesn't know about angular, so any request like /login returns a 404 Error from sails. I need a solution, to keep the sails routes from the angular ones,
One solution would be to disable html5Mode, but i really don't like the look of URLs with the /#/ which is typical for angular.
I have researched a lot on this and haven't yet found a good answer or maybe a working project for this.
Is what I am trying to do even possible right now?
If you're using HTML5 mode with Angular, then you need to configure your web server (in this case SailsJS) to respond with your index.html file for requests to /login or any arbitrary routes.
If you navigate directly to http://localhost:3000/login in your web browser (assuming you're running Sails on localhost:3000), Sails needs to respond with your index.html so that your Angular app can bootstrap and then display the appropriate route. Then, subsequent links that the user clicks on in your app will be intercepted directly by the Angular router instead of Sails directly.
Angular has documentation about making HTML5 mode work correctly here.
Using this mode requires URL rewriting on server side, basically you have to rewrite all your links to entry point of your application (e.g. index.html). Requiring a <base> tag is also important for this case, as it allows Angular to differentiate between the part of the url that is the application base and the path that should be handeled by the application.

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