ui-router nested route controller isn't being called

Question

I am trying to call a controller which should be linked with the home.category route but it isn\'t being called. What\'s wrong in it?

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Answer 1

Well, I found a clue from the given documentation of ui-router the says

You can assign a controller to your template. Warning: The controller will not be instantiated if template is not defined.

https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/wiki#controllers

But I tried to add template and still didn't work, then I saw that my parent route template didn't have

(I mistakenly removed it) so when I added it back it worked :), So, to instantiate our child's route controller, we must have

in our parent's route template.