how to have wildcards in angular routes [duplicate]

Answer 1

Currently AngularJS does not support regular expression in routes.

You can workaround as follows

 app.config(['$routeProvider', function($routeProvider) {
        $routeProvider
                 .when('/admin', {templateUrl: 'admin.html', controller: 'AdminCtrl'})
                 .when('/admin/:type', {templateUrl: 'admin.html', controller: 'AdminCtrl'})
                 .when('/admin/:type/:id', {templateUrl: 'admin.html', controller: 'AdminCtrl'});  
 }]);

http://plnkr.co/edit/tBumW2oEqki2sEl1hjSc?p=preview

IMO, it is good idea to have the separate controller for both admin and users, unless otherwise you have some special requirement.