Sounds similar to the "Previous States" in a project I just learned about (on Stackoverflow): http://christopherthielen.github.io/ui-router-extras/#/home
On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 10:57:44 PM UTC+2, Eric Eslinger wrote: > > Hey angular peeps. I am thinking that I want to build something that > interacts with UI-router, but replaces in some cases the logic of $state.go > with a stack-based push-pop system. > > That would work in places where the user has to do further action to > accomplish the thing that they are doing in their current state in a > somewhat-modular way. Examples: > > if a user tries to visit a page that belongs to a community that they are > not a member of, they should go to the "join / about" community page. > > when linking internally to another page (in a wiki-cms thing), if the page > needs to be created, go to the page creation and return with the link. > > In both cases, these are behaviors which could be directly navigated to > (make new page, join community), but in some circumstances, success should > route to a specific place, possibly with specific view state already > present- the page edits are in progress when the link-to action happened, > for example. > > Thus far, I have handled these kinds of returnable actions by using > modals. I am starting to think that I use too many modals, and there are > also situations where the modal template and controller more or less have > to totally duplicate something that is already in existence in a regular > page somewhere. > > So basically: define a service that stashes the current view state in a > stack, calls state.go on the new state, and defines some state.pop > functionality that will pop the stack if possible and just do a default > state.go if the stack isn't present (if the user got directly to that state > manually). Then the controllers of states which can call state.push need to > check the stack to see if there is some transient view state to override > from the pristine first-visit state. > > anyway, I'm noodling over this idea, I think that it will solve a lot of > my problems in the future. Anyone have any experience with this sort of > pattern? > > Eric > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AngularJS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/angular. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
