Ui-router: Parent View Disappeared When $state.go To Child State

I'm trying to dynamically create a navigation tree for my left-side nav-panel by recursively creating states for each nav-node (the navigation data is reading from the server's DB)

Solution 1:

This is an atypical use case for sure... typically if the thing in the URL is dynamic I would be treating it as a query/state parameter but if you really want to have the URLs be dynamically generated it appears this is now baked into the newer versions of UI-Router or available in the ui-router extras as explained here:

Angular - UI Router - programmatically add states

https://ui-router.github.io/ng1/docs/latest/modules/injectables.html#_stateregistry