How/when to use ng-click to call a route?

Question

Suppose you are using routes:

// bootstrap
myApp.config([\'$routeProvider\', \'$locationProvider\', function ($routeProvider, $locationProvider) {

    $rout         


        

Answer 1

Routes monitor the $location service and respond to changes in URL (typically through the hash). To "activate" a route, you simply change the URL. The easiest way to do that is with anchor tags.

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Nothing more complicated is needed. If, however, you must do this from code, the proper way is by using the $location service:

$scope.go = function ( path ) {
  $location.path( path );
};

Which, for example, a button could trigger: