What is the Angular ui-router lifecycle? (for debugging silent errors)

After some experimenting, I figured out how to see into the lifecycle well enough to debug my app and get a feel for what was happening. Using all the events, including onEnter, onExit, stateChangeSuccess, viewContentLoaded from here, gave me a decent picture of when things are happening in a way that’s more both more flexible and specific to my code than a written out lifecycle. In the app module’s “run” function, I placed:

This code would have saved me days of time and confusion if I started using it when I first started with Angular and UI-router. UI-router needs a “debug” mode that enables this by default.

$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeStart',function(event, toState, toParams, fromState, fromParams){
  console.log('$stateChangeStart to '+toState.name+'- fired when the transition begins. toState,toParams : \n',toState, toParams);
});
$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeError',function(event, toState, toParams, fromState, fromParams, error){
  console.log('$stateChangeError - fired when an error occurs during transition.');
  console.log(arguments);
});
$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeSuccess',function(event, toState, toParams, fromState, fromParams){
  console.log('$stateChangeSuccess to '+toState.name+'- fired once the state transition is complete.');
});
$rootScope.$on('$viewContentLoading',function(event, viewConfig){
   console.log('$viewContentLoading - view begins loading - dom not rendered',viewConfig);
});

/* $rootScope.$on('$viewContentLoaded',function(event){
     // runs on individual scopes, so putting it in "run" doesn't work.
     console.log('$viewContentLoaded - fired after dom rendered',event);
   }); */

$rootScope.$on('$stateNotFound',function(event, unfoundState, fromState, fromParams){
  console.log('$stateNotFound '+unfoundState.to+'  - fired when a state cannot be found by its name.');
  console.log(unfoundState, fromState, fromParams);
});