angularjs - refresh when clicked on link with actual url

Question

I use routeProvider to define controlers and templates for my urls.

When I click on the link, which has the same url as is the actual location, nothing happens. I w

Answer 1

I ran into this issue a moment ago, except for it was the home page '/'. I wanted a simple solution with less code. I just took advantage of the .otherwise method in the $routProvider

So in the html link looks like:

Home

since there is no '/home' page specified in the routProvider it will redirect to '/' via the 'otherwise' method. page with this set up:

.otherwise({
redirectTo: '/'
});

Hope it helps someone