UI Router fails to update URL in address bar after successful state change

Question

I'm building a small Angular app and I'm currently using ui-router.

I've hit a problem which looks awfully like a bug in ui-router but I can't be sure as I'm not that familiar with this library. When the user clicks on a specific link, although the correct view state gets loaded as expected, the URL in the address bar doesn't get updated.

I'm using ui-router's ui-sref directive to automatically generate the URL for the state. For example in the checklist list view I use the following code:

<a ui-sref="checklist-phase({ aircraftId: checklist.aircraft, checklistId: checklist.id, phaseSlug: checklist.phases[0].slug })" ng-bind="checklist.name"></a>

I've cut down my app and made it into a Plunker so the problem is hopefully reproducible by others. The issue can also be observed in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW9CFe6LfCw

Reproduction steps:

1. Go to http://run.plnkr.co/plunks/ZqMIYNU6abEAndAM5nx1/#/aircraft/1/checklists
2. Click the first link. Notice that the view updates to show the correct state, but the URL remains at /#/aircraft/1/checklists.

What is strange is that navigating back to this state by other means updates the URL perfectly. For example (assuming steps 1 and 2 above have been followed):

1. Scroll to the bottom and click the Next Phase link. Note that the state changes and the URL updates.
2. Scroll down on this new view and click Previous Phase. Note that the previous state reloads and this time the URL it updated correctly.

Am I using ui-router incorrectly or doing something else incorrectly to cause this behaviour?

Answer 1

Check here updated version

On your state 'check-lists' you provide ui-sref to 'checklist-phase'

<a ui-sref="checklist-phase({ aircraftId: ...

And the 'checklist-phase' is defined as a child state of 'checklist-detail'

.state('checklist-phase', {
    parent: 'checklist-detail',

And the state 'checklist-detail' has controller which calls $state.go

.state('checklist-detail', {       
    controller: 'ChecklistDetailCtrl',
    ...

    .controller('ChecklistDetailCtrl', function ($scope.... 
    {

        $state.go('checklist-phase', {
            phaseSlug: checklistData.phases[0].slug
        }, {
            location: 'replace'
        });

Do NOT do that... just remove the $state.go - because you are already navigating to the checklist-phase (see the first lines above) ... check it here