ionic2-starter-sidemenu | A starting project for Ionic with side menu navigation | Menu library

Ionic does not support URL routes, instead it implements a custom navigation solution - NavController (as linked by suraj). NavController maintains a stack of pages - moving forward you push a page to the stack this.nav.push(Page1); and moving back you pop it this.navCtrl.pop();. In this way your url in browser is always the same and application always opens on the home page - which is similar to mobile application behaviour. To enable direct access to a certain resource (as you would open url myapp/items/1) you have to use deep linking plugin.