Angular UI Router: Different states with same URL?

Question

The landing page of my app has two states: home-public, home-logged-in. Now I want to show both states on the same URL, but let the controller and template depend on the user session (is the user logged in or not?).

Is there a way to achieve this?

Answer 1

You could have a base state that controls which state to load, and you could simply have the child stated of that base state not have urls:

.state('home', {
  url: "/home",
  templateUrl: "....",
  controller: function($scope,$state,authSvc) {
     if(authSvc.userIsLoggedIn()){
          $state.go('home.loggedin')
     }else{
          $state.go('home.public')
     }
  }
})


.state('home.public', {
  url: "",
  templateUrl: "....",
  controller: function($scope) {
     ...........
  }
})

.state('home.loggedin', {
  url: "",
  templateUrl: "....",
  controller: function($scope) {
     ...........
  }
})

Now in the controller of your base state (home) you can check if the user is logged in or not, and use $state.go() to load an appropriate state.

EDIT

As promised, a working plunk.

Answer 2

I am not sure if two states can have the same url. What i can think can be a viable option would be to define a single state

$stateProvider.state('home', {
  templateUrl: function (stateParams){
    // Implement a logic that select what view from the server should be returned for logged in user and otherwise
    //return 'templateurl';
  }
})

I have not tried but it should work.