IIRC, in recent versions of the angular router, the second, #!-type urls are a fallback for legacy browsers (more precisely, ones that don't support the HTML5 h

IIRC, in recent versions of the angular router, the second, #!-type urls are a fallback for legacy browsers (more precisely, ones that don't support the HTML5 history API). On modern browsers the url will look like your first one.