Grunt serve adds '#' in the url

Question

I'm trying to build a simple web app (I'm newbie in Node.js, Yeoman, Grunt) and I'm following this great tutorial - "Build a M.E.A.N web app".

The only thing that I don't understand is why when running

grunt serve

I got urls like localhost:9000/#/projects. What's the point of the '#'?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Here you could find my gruntfile.

That's probably not grunt but your application (probably a SPA) that is running when you do a grunt serve. — Bas Slagter, May 01 '15 at 12:19

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:14

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It's not because of grunt serve, hashtag adds angular. It is how browser works with single page application(SPA). When you don't reload your page, client javascript needs to know how to route requests and display views. If you want to turn off this feature, you need to switch it in angular with:

$locationProvider
  .html5Mode(true)

Grunt serve adds '#' in the url

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