uiview - How do I setup nested views in AngularJS?

Question

I have an application with various screens. Each screen is assigned a URL, such as #, mails, contacts, and so on.

In my main HTML file I have an ng-view element which updates according to the route the user selects. So far, so good.

Now some of these screens have a sub-navigation. E.g., #mails does have an inbox and a sent folder. They present themselfes with two columns: The sub-navigation on the left, the mails of the appropriate folder on the right.

When you navigate to #mails, it shall redirect you to #mails/inbox, so that basically inbox is the default sub-view for mails.

How could I set this up?

The only approach I can currently think of (I am quite new to AngularJS, hence forgive me if this question is a little bit naive) is to have two views, one for #mails/inbox, and the other for #mails/sent.

When you select a route, these views are loaded. When you select #mails it simply redirects you to #mails/inbox.

But this means that both views must use an ng-include for the sub-navigation. Somehow this feels wrong to me.

What I'd like more is to have nested views: The top one switches between screens such as mails, contacts, and so on, and the bottom one changes between sub-views such as inbox, sent, and so on.

How would I solve this?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15460279/how-do-i-setup-nested-views-in-angularjs

Answer 1

AngularJS ui-router solved my issues :-)