Default route for angular ui router

Question

The sample demo of the angular ui router has this link for the start page:

full url of \'ui-router\' is / or http://angular-ui.github.io/ui-route

Answer 1

use the $urlRouterProvider and its otherwise function:

angular.module('MyApp', ['ui.router'])
  .config(['$stateProvider', '$urlRouterProvider', function ($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider) {
     $stateProvider.state('default', {
     controller: 'MyController',
     templateUrl: 'path/to/template.ng.html',
     url:'/default'
    })
    $urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/default')
  })];