I am working on getting an angularJS SPA setup with multiple views using angular ui-router.
As I look aroun dthe web at tutorials and how-to's, I see a mixed bag of dependencies. The ui-router github page has examples that use ui.router
as the module dependency, while other articles such as Ben Schwartz tutorial uses ui.state
.
What is the difference? Is one deprecated? Is ui.state
a subset of ui.router
?
In summary, ui.state
was for v0.0.1, while ui.router
is for v0.2.0 (the current version).
ui.state
was the necessary module for users to inject as a dependency in v0.0.1 of ui-router. See the README at that release, as well as the relevant snippet from angular-ui-router.js (lines 45-48):
angular.module('ui.util', ['ng']);
angular.module('ui.router', ['ui.util']);
angular.module('ui.state', ['ui.router', 'ui.util']);
angular.module('ui.compat', ['ui.state']);
The README at v0.2.0 states under Quick Start: Set ui.router as a dependency in your module. Note: Use ui.state if using v0.0.1.
This is of course corroborated by angular-ui-router.js at v0.2.0, lines 79-83, showing the corresponding module dependency structure at that point:
angular.module('ui.router.util', ['ng']);
angular.module('ui.router.router', ['ui.router.util']);
angular.module('ui.router.state', ['ui.router.router', 'ui.router.util']);
angular.module('ui.router', ['ui.router.state']);
angular.module('ui.router.compat', ['ui.router']);