With angular.js using ui-router, how to only reload one view?

angularjs, javascript

Solution

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app.config(['$stateProvider', function ($stateProvider) {
    $stateProvider
    .state('todo', {
        abstract: true,
        views: {
            "navPanel": {
                templateUrl: "./navPanel.html",
                controller: 'PanelController'
            }
        }
    })
    .state('todo/:item', {
        url: "/todo/:item", 
        views: {
            "ContentView@": {
                templateUrl: "./content.html",
                controller: 'ContentController'
            }
        }
    })

}]);

Problem

I have a fairly simple todo app using angular.js for which I am using the ui-router library. I looked through the ui-router example on github (https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/tree/master/sample) but was unable to figure out what I am doing wrong. In my app I have a sidebar navigation view (with the list of things todo) and a content view (which displays the todo item's details when clicked). The problem I have is that when I navigate to /todo/exampleItem the content view updates and the navigation panel is reloaded as well. This doesn't effect the functionality of the app but I would like to avoid the navigation panel flickering each time you click on an item. Here is my code to handle the state changes: ``` app.config(function ($stateProvider) { $stateProvider .state('todo', { url: "/todo", views: { "navPanel": { templateUrl: "./navPanel.html", controller: 'PanelController' } } }) .state('todo/:item', { url: "/todo/:item", views: { "PanelView": { templateUrl: "./navPanel.html", controller: 'PanelController' }, "ContentView": { templateUrl: "./content.html", controller: 'ContentController' } } }) }); ``` In my index.html my views are set up as follows: ``` <div class="column" data-ui-view="PanelView"></div> <div class="column" data-ui-view="ContentView"></div> ``` Is there some way I can stop the navPanel view from being reloaded each time a new item is clicked?

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