For anyone interested in AngularJS, a work colleague of mine discovered this: https://christopherthielen.github.io/ui-router-extras/#/home As the name suggests, it's an extension of the ui-router module in AngularJS It has some really nifty features, include "future states" which basically does lazy loading of AngularJS controllers - seen here: https://christopherthielen.github.io/ui-router-extras/example/future/index.html Click on the links along the top of the last link pasted above to see it in action