AngularJS – How to use $routeParams in generating the templateUrl?

This very helpful feature is now available starting at version 1.1.2 of AngularJS. It’s considered unstable but I have used it (1.1.3) and it works fine.

Basically you can use a function to generate a templateUrl string. The function is passed the route parameters that you can use to build and return the templateUrl string.

var app = angular.module('app',[]);

app.config(
    function($routeProvider) {
        $routeProvider.
            when("https://stackoverflow.com/", {templateUrl:'/home'}).
            when('/users/:user_id', 
                {   
                    controller:UserView, 
                    templateUrl: function(params){ return '/users/view/' + params.user_id; }
                }
            ).
            otherwise({redirectTo:"https://stackoverflow.com/"});
    }
);

Many thanks to https://github.com/lrlopez for the pull request.

https://github.com/angular/angular.js/pull/1524

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