Angular / Ionic - controller only runs once

Question

I\'m starting out with Angular through the Ionic Framework but I am failing to understand why the controller only runs once i.e. I change state, the controller runs, change to a

Answer 1

Building on @brandyshea's answer, I would like to add if you want to specify no caching in one area/controller/state, and take advantage of the caching in other areas, you can simply use the cache parameter in your $stateProvider for that state.

Disable cache within state provider

$stateProvider.state('myState', {
  cache: false,
  url : '/myUrl',
  templateUrl : 'my-template.html'
})

Alternatively, you can use one of the other methods too:

Disable cache with an attribute

...

Disable cache globally The $ionicConfigProvider can be used to set the maximum allowable views which can be cached, but this can also be use to disable all caching by setting it to 0.

$ionicConfigProvider.views.maxCache(0);

References: http://ionicframework.com/docs/api/directive/ionNavView/ and http://ionicframework.com/docs/api/directive/ionView/