Change route parameters without updating view

Question

I\'m currently trying to figure out how to change the route parameters without reloading the entire page. For example, if I start at

http://www.example.com/#/page

Answer 1

I actually found a solution that I find a little more elegant for my application.

The $locationChangeSuccess event is a bit of a brute force approach, but I found that checking the path allows us to avoid page reloads when the route path template is unchanged, but reloads the page when switching to a different route template:

var lastRoute = $route.current;
$scope.$on('$locationChangeSuccess', function (event) {
    if (lastRoute.$$route.originalPath === $route.current.$$route.originalPath) {
        $route.current = lastRoute;
    }
});

Adding that code to a particular controller makes the reloading more intelligent.