Create your own view
The search page is served by the catalog.search service.
This service ends up into base-layout-cssjs-loader.xsl (See web/src/main/webapp/xslt/base-layout-cssjs-loader.xsl) which contains the logic to load the right html page.
The view parameter
You can pass a parameter view to the catalog.search url to point on a custom view.
If no parameter is specified, the view value will be taken from the system/ui/defaultView settings, and if no setting is set, is value will be default.
It will be stored in $searchView XSLT variable.
Loading the view
The view is loaded from (See web/src/main/webapp/xslt/ui-search/search.xsl):
<div data-ng-include="'{$uiResourcesPath}views/{$searchView}/templates/index.html'"
class="gn-full">
The view main template is loaded through the AngularJS directive ng-include and will point on the path /web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/views/${view}/templates/index.html.
For the default view, you can find this template in web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/views/default/templates/index.html.
Loading the javascript
To init AngularJS main module you have to use the directive ng-app and point on your main AngularJS module.
In the case of the search page (catalog.search), the $angularApp variable equals gn_search. And for the lt view the $angularModule equals gn_search_default.
So, by default, the main AngularJS module is loaded here from gn_search_default module declared here (See web-ui/src/main/resources/catalog/views/default/module.js.
From here, you can build your AngularJS module dependency tree and load your application.
CSS files
In the same logic, the CSS that is loaded into the page is gn_search_default.less.