How average admin control panel implementations

I was looking for a way to achieve this and I am posting my search result here. First, create a new module:

yo meanjs:angular-module admin
yo meanjs:angular-route adminHome
? Which module does this route belongs to? admin
? What do you want your route path to be? admin-home
? What do you want to call your view? admin-home
? What do you want to call your controller? AdminHome
   create public/modules/admin/config/admin.client.routes.js
   create public/modules/admin/controllers/admin-home.client.controller.js
   create public/modules/admin/tests/admin-home.client.controller.test.js
   create public/modules/admin/views/admin-home.client.view.html

      

        
        
        
      

    

Once you've taken this first step, make sure that when you continue with: http: // localhost: 3000 / #! / Admin-home , you are effectively loading the generated view. Then you will start generating your express route and controller:

yo meanjs:express-route admin
yo meanjs:express-controller admin

      

        
        
        
      

    

Now here's the fun. The idea is to tell Express to load different kinds of layouts when you click/admin

//Content of app/controllers/admin.server.controller.js
'use strict';

exports.index = function(req, res){
    res.render('admin-index', {
        user: req.user || null,
        request: req
    });
};

//Content of app/routes/admin.server.routes.js
'use strict';

module.exports = function(app) {
    var admin = require('../../app/controllers/admin.server.controller');
    app.route('/admin').get(admin.index);
};

      

        
        
        
      

    

Copy / Paste:

app/views/index.server.view.html -> app/views/admin-index.server.view.html
app/views/layout.server.view.html ->app/views/admin-layout.server.view.html

      

        
        
        
      

    

Edit app/views/admin-index.server.view.html

:

{% extends 'admin-layout.server.view.html' %}

{% block content %}
    <section data-ui-view></section>
{% endblock %}

      

        
        
        
      

    

Edit app/views/admin-layout.server.view.html

:

[...]
{% for jsFile in jsFiles %}<script type="text/javascript" src="/{{jsFile}}"></script>{% endfor %}
[...]

      

        
        
        
      

    

Note the '/' before {{jsFile}}

Finishing touch. Since your browser is now loading / administering instead / you need to tell u-router that the path to templates is absolute and not relative.

//Content of public/modules/admin/config/admin.client.routes.js
'use strict';

//Setting up route
angular.module('admin').config(['$stateProvider',
    function($stateProvider) {
        // Admin state routing
        $stateProvider.
        state('admin-home', {
            url: '/admin-home',
            templateUrl: '/modules/admin/views/admin-home.client.view.html'
        });
    }
]);

      

        
        
        
      

    

Notice the "/" at the beginning of the templateUrl content

Now check your admin area by going to http://localhost:3000/admin/#!/admin-home