“ui-sref” does not refresh the “ui-view”(its controller does not rerun) when a link is clicked twice

Question

When a state is clicked at first, the div that owns the \"ui-view\" attribute is replaced with the \"template\" of that state. However, when I click the same state again, it

Answer 1

Like Philipp said, it is because this is the default behavior of ui-router, BUT if you would like to reload your controller each time you click on your link, you can actually use the ui-sref-opts attribute to force it, like this:

State 1

Found this tip here:

https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/commit/91a568454cc600aa4f34dedc8a80c9be1130b1c5

Hope it could help