state aliases or index

[marktopper]

Would it be a good feature to add state aliases or indexes.

Like making it possible to do the following:

stateHelperProvider
    .state({
        name: 'home',
        // ...
        abstract: true,
        index: 'welcome', // then it will use home.welcome as index
        children: [
            {
                name: 'welcome',
                // ...
            }
        ]
    })

Or

stateHelperProvider
    .state({
        name: 'home',
        // ...
        abstract: true,
        children: [
            {
                name: 'welcome',
                alias: 'index', // since a child state name 'index' of a abstract state will be the index, this should be able to be the index this way around
                // ...
            }
        ]
    })

Why, because maybe you don't want to have states called like something.index.index.index.
Just because you have something which can include many childs, but need a index.
And as well for the first and second index.

[christopherthielen]

Something similar, "default substate of abstract state" is planned, but not currently implemented.

Follow #1235