AngularJS routing vs backend routing

Question

I would like to use AngularJS in my next project. The application with Python backend and html5, Angular frontend.

I am going to use MVC framework on backend and I am li

Answer 1

You can choose to do either client-side routing, server-side routing or a combination of both...

In case of client-side routing, you would have a single page served by the server. All routing after that would be done by the client. If you have an application with a lot of pages, this might not be the optimal solution and you might want to do server-side routing.

In case of server-side routing, you would serve a page for every route defined on the server application. Each of them would contain a mini-angularJS application (furthermore, each of these mini-SPAs could do some additional routing if that makes sense)

It's up to you to decide what works best for your case.

Update:

Definitely check out UI-router from the AngularUI project if you are planning to do client-side routing. It gives you the ability to create state-based views and some other things that were not possible with Angular's native routing.