AngularJs location path change without all controllers resetting

Question

Short version of my question is: How do I change the URL without need to trigger route change or without need to run all the controllers on the currently displayed page?

Answer 1

Sounds like you don't want to use $route service.

The $route service is designed to reload the controllers so that there is no difference between navigating to a URL and refreshing the URL. We do this by doing a full reload on every URL change. This is intentional.

Sounds like your use case, should not be using $route, just $location and ng-include.