How would I have ui-router go to an external link, such as google.com?
Angular-ui-router doesn’t support external URL, you need redirect the user using either $location.url() or $window.open() I would suggest you to use $window.open(‘http://www.google.com’, ‘_self’) which will open URL on the same page. Update You can also customize ui-router by adding parameter external, it can be true/false. $stateProvider .state(‘external’, { url: ‘http://www.google.com’, external: true }) Then configure … Read more