UI-Router - Change $state without rerender/reload of the page

Question

I\'ve been looking at these pages (1, 2, 3). I basically want to change my $state, but I don\'t want the page to reload.

I am currently in the page

Answer 1

Adding my answer because I think it's different enough from the accepted answer and may be useful to others:

I had two states, begin and view, with a bunch of optional parameters being synced with the URL for view, like so:

$stateProvider
    .state('begin',
        {
            url: '/',
            template: ''
        })
    .state('view',
        {
            url: '/View?param1¶m2&...¶mN',
            template: ''
            params: {
               param1: {
                   value: null,
                   squash: true
               },
               ...
            }
        });

The link function for would run any time I tried to sync the parameters using $state.go. Using {notify: false, reload: false} did not work for me. The link function still ran each time. I'm on 0.2 so dynamic isn't an available param option, either. I followed @b0nyb0y's suggestion and turned it into a parent/child relationship, which worked:

$stateProvider
    .state('app',
        {
            url: '/',
            template: ''
        })
    .state('app.view',
        {
            url: 'View?param1¶m2&...¶mN',
            params: {
               param1: {
                   value: null,
                   squash: true
               },
               ...
            }
        });