angular url is adding unwanted characters

Question

I had a project where the URL just worked fine when working locally by going to

localhost:9000/

the URL would become

Answer 1

This is actually not a bug.

See commit-aa077e8

The default hash-prefix used for $location hash-bang URLs has changed from the empty string ('') to the bang ('!').

If you actually want to have no hash-prefix, then you can restore the previous behavior by adding a configuration block to your application:

appModule.config(['$locationProvider', function($locationProvider) {
  $locationProvider.hashPrefix('');
}]);