Move $route and ngView into angular-route.js

[IgorMinar]

Even if some of us don't want to admit it, I think we all feel that our lovely $route is approaching its EOL.

We'll need to completely rethink routing in angular apps in the future and projects like ui-router look like a great starting point.

Additionally since we see a considerable number of smaller apps out there that don't require routing at all, and mobile apps handle routing differently than desktop apps, it doesn't make sense to require everyone to download angular.min.js with all the bytes that our code responsible for routing weights.

For these reasons I'd like to propose that we move $route and ngView code into a separate file and module called angular-route.js and ngRoute respectively.

[L42y]

Awesome! can't wait for this.

[ce-compcode]

For the sake of backward compatibility, what are everyone's views? If I have an app using $route and related events - I believe they should work in new model. Any views?

[petebacondarwin]

This is s good idea. There are a variety of scenarios that need different solutions, as igor points out. Ui-router is an interesting alternative as is Andy's mobile project. One should be able to choose from a variety of modules both provided by Google and by third parties.

[petebacondarwin]

For backward compatibility you would simply load up the angular-route.js file and make your app depend upon ngRoute .

[geddski]

I agree with this change. Honestly, I think we should do the same with as many included components as possible. Angular is a rock-solid HTML compiler that happens to come with some common framework components. The latter should be optional and easily replaced by userland modules.

Here is another decent looking little router.
https://github.com/tildeio/router.js

[IgorMinar]

@geddski my plans for angular v2 are even more radical than that. stay tuned :)

[geddski]

@IgorMinar mind blown. Let me know how I can help.

[IgorMinar]

v1.2 first, then we'll roll out the plan forward.

[btford]

+1. Would love to make this optional.

[escalant3]

This is great news. I didn't know about ui-router but after checking it out is really similar to a route-service I wrote for the app I am working on. Everything pointing to a common community maintained solution is good.

[mhevery]

+1