How do I get rid of the /#/ when using ui-router?

Question

I am new to Angular and I am currently doing my routes with ui.router and was curious about something. I notice when I go to my site either on localhost or online, my URL includes /#/ at the end of it. Home looks like domain.com/#/ and other pages follow suite ( domain.com/#/about ) How do I make it appear without the hash?

Here is an example of my app.js

var app = angular.module('dashboardApp', ['ui.router']);

app.config(
    ['$stateProvider','$urlRouterProvider', 
    function($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider){
    $urlRouterProvider.otherwise('/');

    $stateProvider
        //Dashboard states and nested views ========================
        .state('home', {
            url: '/',
            templateUrl: './templates/main/dashboard.html',
            controller: 'dashboardCtrl'
        })

        //Subject states and nested views ==========================
        .state('about', {
            url: '/about',
            templateUrl: './templates/main/about.html',
            controller: 'aboutCtrl'
        });
    }]);

And here is how I am calling it in my DOM

<div class="main-nav">
    <a ui-sref="home"><img src="randomimage.png" /></a>
</div>
<div class="main-nav">
    <a ui-sref="about">About</a>
</div>

Solution

The hasbang is there for compatibility reasons with the older browsers. Here is a thread for the same question:

AngularJS routing without the hash '#'

And here is a blog post explaining how to get rid of the hashbang safely with fallback for older browsers:

http://scotch.io/quick-tips/js/angular/pretty-urls-in-angularjs-removing-the-hashtag

Essentially, you can use $locationProvider.html5Mode(true) to eliminate the hashbang for the "HTML5 ready" browsers and Angular will fall back automatically to the hashbang version for the older browsers.