UI Router conditional ui views?

Question

I can\'t figure out a reasonable way, which doesn\'t feel like a hack, to solve this rather trivial problem.

I want a guest to see a splash page when they access the ind

Answer 1

For docs purposes, I used:

$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeStart', function(event, toState) {
  if ((toState.name !== 'login') && (!$localStorage.nickname)) {
    event.preventDefault();
    $state.go('login');
  }
});

Using $routeChangeStart didn't work for me.