Angular ui-router initial state without URL

Question

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?

Answer 1

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');
         }
     ]);