[SonicSoul]

from my limited experience with Ember, it appears that it hosts entire application from a single base url, and overrides forward/back buttons so that the page doesn't reload in order to keep state. instead it uses query string view paths and tokens to navigate around right? Does Angular support anything like this?

[bluepnume]

What you're describing is pretty much fundamentally a "single page web app". This is a pretty common pattern for frontend apps.