angular-location-update

Updates location path without reloading of controller

Install

1 bower install angular-location-update --save or download or include hosted from github.io

    <script src="//anglibs.github.io/angular-location-update/angular-location-update.min.js"></script>

2 Add module to your app:

  angular.module('your_app', ['ngLocationUpdate']);

Usage

$location.update_path('/notes/1');
$location.update_path('/notes/1/wysiwyg', true);

Parameters:

1. New path
2. Keep old path in browser history (By default it will be replaced by new one)

When it's needed?

For example you have route /notes/new which shows form for new note.

In modern web app you may have no "Save" button - note created and saved to database once user made any change. Then you would like to change route to /notes/1 showing to user, that here is URL of his new document. Also if he will refresh page or go back and forward using browser buttons - he will see what he expects.

FYI

Did you know, that you can easily change your URLs

from http://mysite.com/#/notes/1 to http://mysite.com/notes/1

For this:

1. Config app: angular.module('your_app').config(function($locationProvider) { $locationProvider.html5Mode(true); });
2. Add in your HTML <base href="/">

More info: https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/$location

Credits

Solution invented by guys in these threads:

1. https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/1699
2. https://github.com/angular-ui/ui-router/issues/427
3. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14974271/can-you-change-a-path-without-reloading-the-controller-in-angularjs