I'm asking myself how to do highlight the currently active navigation item since the scope of the current controller is in ng-view.
Would be cool if this feature was embedded in the starter template.
I guess I'm not alone with this request and it seems like a pretty standard thing users want to do. See:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12592472/how-to-highlight-a-current-menu-item-in-angularjs
EDIT: Just created a pull request
See: #163