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Using UIRouter in an Angular 1.5 app, I'm having trouble trying to set an initial state for my angular module.

I've created a few states without URLs (because I don't need actual routing) and I would like to activate an initial state once the module is instantiated.

Usually, I would do this using $urlRouterProvider.otherwise(<initialRoute>), but since I don't use URLs in my states, that can't work.

Does UIRouter (or Angular) provide a solution for this?

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sorry but if you don't have route ..why di you want to set one? .. have you tried already $urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/') and set <base ref="/"> in your index? – federico scamuzzi Jan 18 at 16:41
    
No I don't have any route, juste states without URLs. It's actually a feature of UIRouter, you can activate such a state the same way as for a routed state (using ui-sref or $state.go() for example). Similarly to a routed application where you usually define a default URL (such as /home for example), I would like to have a default state (that is not URL-based). Is that clearer? – ClementParis016 Jan 18 at 16:48
    
but ui-sref and $state.go are used to navigate to a url .. but ok – federico scamuzzi Jan 18 at 16:50
    
I know, it looks weird but it is intended to work like that :) – ClementParis016 Jan 18 at 17:14
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After your application has bootstrapped, you can set your initial state inside the .run() method.

angular.module("myModuleName")
    .run([
        "$state",
         function($state){
            $state.go('stateName');
         }
     ]);
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Thank you, it works well! Indeed, it makes perfect sense and that's a clean solution :) – ClementParis016 Jan 18 at 17:16

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