AngularJS redirect without pushing a history state

Question

I\'m working on an AngularJS app that has a catch all route (eg, .when(\'/:slug\', {...)) which is necessary to support legacy url formats from a previous (non-

Answer 1

You can change the url without adding to the history state, found here under "Replace Method". This is effectively the same as calling HTML5's history.replaceState().

$location.path('/someNewPath').replace();

I haven't found that it's possible to change the view without changing the url. The only method to change the view, that I've found, is to change the location path.