Can't navigate directly to Angular UI Router url

This is my router file:
nested inside the require.js block and configured to work with Jade templates

define([
    './app',
    'angular.uirouter'
], function(app, angularUIRouter) {
    "use strict";

    // ROUTES
    app.config(['$stateProvider', '$urlRouterProvider', '$locationProvider', function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider, $locationProvider) {

        // loads url from the index
        $urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/');

        $locationProvider.html5Mode(true);

        $stateProvider
            .state('dashboard', {
                url:'/dashboard',
                views: {
                    'core' : {
                        templateUrl: '/articles/dashboard'
                    }
                }
            }) 
    }]);
});

      

        
        
        
      

    

And this is my Express.js router file:

var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();

/* GET home page. */
router.get('/', function(req, res) {
    res.render('main', { 
        title: 'Express' 
    });
});

router.get('/dashboard', function(req, res) {
    console.log("/dashboard requested");
});

router.get('/articles/:name', function (req, res) { 
    var name = req.params.name;
    res.render('articles/' + name);
});

module.exports = router;

      

        
        
        
      

    

When I go to localhost: 3000 / dashboard it makes a GET request to the server. How can I configure Angular UI Router to handle GET requests instead of server?

Note. I can still go to localhost: 3000 / articles / dashboard and see the dashboard. Besides,

a(ui-sref="dashboard")

loads the panel correctly.