Otherwise on StateProvider

Question

Using angular-ui-router, How can I use the otherwise method on $stateProvider or how can I use it at all ?

Answer 1

You can with $stateProvider using the catch all syntax ("*path"). You just need to add a state config at the bottom of your list like the following one:

$stateProvider.state("otherwise", {
    url: "*path",
    templateUrl: "views/error-not-found.html"
});

All the options are explained in https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/wiki/URL-Routing#regex-parameters.

The nice thing of this option, as opposed to $urlRouterProvider.otherwise(...), is that you 're not forced to a location change.