$state.go does not regiester a new entry in the browser history when navigating to child state

[DmitryEfimenko]

I have a case when I need to run parent state's controller to determine which child state needs to be loaded (which is why I cannot set it abstract). The issue arises when after loading of first child state, and navigating to another child state - pressing the browser's "Back" button will not redirect back to the first child state.

The issue is described in details in StackOverflow Question and can be observed in this Plunker example

I saw "How to set up default child state" in FAQ, but it's not quite my scenario, since I actually need parent state to run initially.

[nateabele]

It looks like, because the new transition is happening before the old one is fully finalized, that it's not getting $location.replace()'d properly. We have some new APIs that will allow you to do this somewhere other than the controller, which should be somewhat cleaner.

For now, I recommend using the onEnter hook instead of the controller to do your redirect.

[DmitryEfimenko]

I cannot get it to work even when placing the conditional logic and $state.go() call in to the onEnter hook. It gets into an infinite redirect state and crashes the browser.

[eddiemonge]

https://gist.github.com/eddiemonge/f6a58169c2846731a1eb