I am using ng-route in in my angular app. As soon as the url changes I don't want to update the templateUrl or controller, but I want to call a function in scope with route param. How to do it?

Should I provide same controller and call the function in controller itself? This is assuming that the controller's constructor is called again on route change. I haven't tried it as there might be a better way to do it? I am new to angular.

I am using ng-route in in my angular app. As soon as the url changes I don't want to update the templateUrl or controller, but I want to call a function in scope with route param. How to do it?

Should I provide same controller and call the function in controller itself? This is assuming that the controller's constructor is called again on route change. I haven't tried it as there might be a better way to do it? I am new to angular.

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2 Answers 2

angular-route.js broadcast events $routeUpdate, $routeChangeStart, $routeChangeSuccess on $rootScope, so you can listen to one of them

add this to your scope on which you want to detect route change

$rootScope.$on('$routeChangeStart', function (next, last) {
   $scope.someFunction();
});

You can try this in your controller :

$scope.$on('$locationChangeStart', function(event) {
    //your code here
});