Angular ui-router: ui-views vs directives?

Question

The angular ui-router allows multiple nested views. The role of these interchangeable views seems to overlap the role of directives.

What are the pros/cons

Answer 1

How about if you used Angular UI router's inline views to point to directives?

Let's say you have a directive for a table that handles CRUD operations on user accounts. We'll say the directive is named user-admin. Our routes file would look like:

.state('users', {
  url: '/users',
  template: ""
});

This would give you many nice things:

• Allow you to have a url that points straight to a directive
• Removes the duplication of needing two templates (view template and directive template) when a state is just a directive
• Allow you to start moving more controller logic into directives in prep for Angular 2.0. See here and here.