AngularJS UI Bootstrap Tabs that support routing

Question

I would like to use AngularJS UI Bootstrap Tabs in my project, but I need it to support routing.

For example:

Tab         URL
--------------------
Jobs       /jobs
Invoices   /invoices
Payments   /payments

As far as I can tell from the source code, the current tabs and pane directives doesn't support routing.

What would be the best way to add routing?

Answer 1

Agree with the use of UI-Router which tracks states and works great with nested views. Speaking particularly of your Bootstrap tabs issue there is a great implementation that leverages UI Router: UI-Router Tabs

Answer 2

I got tabs with routing working the following way.

It's able to do everything you want from dynamic tabs, and it's actually very simple.

• Tabs with a ui-view, so it can dynamically load templates,
• Update routing in URL
• Set history state
• When directly navigating to a route with a tabbed view, the correct tab is marked as active.

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Define the tabs with a parameter in your router

.state('app.tabs', {
    url         : '/tabs',
    template    : template/tabs.html,
})
.state('app.tabs.tab1', {
    url         : '/tab1',
    templateUrl : 'template/tab1.html',
    params      : {
        tab         : 'tab1'
    }
})
.state('app.visitors.browser.analytics', {
    url         : '/tab1',
    templateUrl : 'template/tab2.html',
    params      : {
        tab         : 'tab2'
    }
})

The tabs template (tabs.html) is

<div ng-controller="TabCtrl as $tabs">
    <uib-tabset active="$tabs.activeTab">
        <uib-tab heading="This is tab 1" index="'tab1'" ui-sref="app.tabs.tab1"></uib-tab>
        <uib-tab heading="This is tab 2" index="'tab2'" ui-sref="app.tabs.tab2"></uib-tab>
    </uib-tabset>
    <div ui-view></div>
</div>

Which is paired with a very simple controller for getting the current active tab:

app.controller('TabCtrl', function($stateParams) {
    this.activeTab = $stateParams.tab;
})

Answer 3

This aught to be able to do what you want:

https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router

Answer 4

you could pass your own custom key value pairs in the route definition and achieve this. here's a good example: http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2420-Mapping-AngularJS-Routes-Onto-URL-Parameters-And-Client-Side-Events.htm

Answer 5

This answer really helped me http://odetocode.com/blogs/scott/archive/2014/04/14/deep-linking-a-tabbed-ui-with-angularjs.aspx (very simple but powerful solution)

Answer 6

just a small add to accepted answer: i needed to keep the current tab at page refresh so i used a switch like this:

$scope.tabs = [
            { link : '#/furnizori', label : 'Furnizori' },
            { link : '#/total', label : 'Total' },
            { link : '#/clienti', label : 'Clienti' },
            { link : '#/centralizator', label : 'Centralizator' },
            { link : '#/optiuni', label : 'Optiuni' }
        ];

        switch ($location.path()) {
            case '/furnizori':
                $scope.selectedTab = $scope.tabs[0];
                break;

            case '/total':
                $scope.selectedTab = $scope.tabs[1];
                break;

            case '/clienti':
                $scope.selectedTab = $scope.tabs[2];
                break;

            case '/centralizator':
                $scope.selectedTab = $scope.tabs[3];
                break;

            case '/optiuni':
                $scope.selectedTab = $scope.tabs[4];
                break;

            default:
                $scope.selectedTab = $scope.tabs[0];
                break;
        }