UI-Router for Angular - Sample Application

This project was generated with angular-cli version 1.0.0-beta.30.

http://ui-router.github.io/sample-app-angular/#/mymessages/inbox/5648b50cc586cac4aed6836f

This sample app is intended to demonstrate a non-trivial ui-router application.

• Multiple sub-modules
• Managed state lifecycle
• Application data lifecycle
• Authentication (simulated)
• Authenticated and unauthenticated states
• REST data retrieval (simulated)
• Lazy loaded Angular modules (contacts/mymessages/prefs submodules)

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Visualizer

We're using the State and Transition Visualizer to visually represent the current state tree, as well as the transitions between states. Explore how transitions work by hovering over them, and clicking to expand details (params and resolves).

Note how states are entered when they were previously not active, exited and re-entered when parameters change, and how parent states whose parameters did not change are retained. Each of these (exited, entered, retained) correspond to a Transition Hook.

Structure

There are many ways to structure a ui-router app. We aren't super opinionated on application structure. Use what works for you. We organized ours in the following way:

• Feature modules
  • Each feature gets its own directory and Angular Module (@NgModule)
  • Features contain states and components
  • Specific types of helper code (directives, services, etc) used only within a feature may live in a subdirectory named after its type
• Leveraging ES6 modules
  • States for a module are defined in separate file
  • Each component is defined in its own file
  • Components are referenced in states where they are composed into the state definition
  • States export themselves
  • Each feature @NgModule imports and declares all the states for the feature

UI-Router Patterns

• Defining custom, app-specific global behaviors
  • Add metadata to a state, or state tree (such as authRequired)
  • Check for metadata in transition hooks
  • Example: routerhooks/authRequired.js
    • If a transition to a state with a truthy data.authRequired: true property is started and the user is not currently authenticated
• Defining a default substate for a top-level state
  • Example: declaring redirectTo: 'welcome' in app.states.ts
• Defining a default parameter for a state
  • Example: folderId parameter defaults to 'inbox' in mymessages.states.ts (folder state)
• Application data lifecycle
  • Data loading is managed by the state declaration, via the resolve: block
  • Data is fetched before the state is entered
  • Data is fetched according to state parameters
  • The state is entered when the data is ready
  • The resolved data is injected into the components
  • The resolve data remains loaded until the state is exited
• Lazy Loaded states
  • The main submodules (and all their states and components) are lazy loaded
  • The future state includes a loadChildren property which is used to lazy load the module