AngularJS: Change hash and route without completely reloading controller

Question

I have a controller, with a route like this:

#/articles/1234

I want to change the route without completely reloading the controller, so I can keep the positi

Answer 1

You can do this without the $locationChange~ and HistoryState hacks using routes resolve promise option.

Assuming you had an article route where that number is what changed you could do this;

$routeProvider.when(
    '/article/:number',
    {
        templateUrl : 'partial.html',
        controller : 'ArticleCtrl',
        resolve : {
            load : ['$q', '$routeParams', function($q, $routeParams) {
                var defer = $q.defer();

                //number was specified in the previous route parameters, means we were already on the article page
                if ($routeParams.number)
                    //so dont reload the view
                    defer.reject('');
                //otherwise, the number argument was missing, we came to this location from another route, load the view
                else
                    defer.resolve();

                return defer.promise;
            }]
        }
    }
);