Brings especially mid-/long-term many benefits. Is a requirement when replacing some or all visualizations with AngularJS. Would make implementing features like #5977 (comment) easier

Maybe we could also replace the menu.js with AngularJS in the same step? Not sure!

https://docs.angularjs.org/api/ngRoute/service/$route

$route is used for deep-linking URLs to controllers and views (HTML partials). It watches $location.url("") and tries to map the path to an existing route definition.