Angular Views Issue - Angular 1.5 - $stateProvider issue???- UI Router - angularjs

Question

I have a simple application which uses the $stateProvider to toggle between templates/views. I have two links:
Areas
Vendors*
I have the following handler in the controller:
var vm = $scope;
vm.manage = function (type) {
if (type == 'vendors') {
vm.message = 'Comming soon.';
} else {
$state.go(type);
}
};
When I click on the Areas link, I change the state to area (using the $state.go(...) call and then I see the template (and the html contents). Then, when I click the Vendors link I see the default message 'Comming soon'. Then when I click the Areas link again, I get the console.log from the area-controller but not the output (template and the html contents therein). What is going here, this is a very simple task that I do all the time and not sure why I'm not getting the static <h1></h1> the second time I request the $state change.
I have tried $scope.apply() and even $scope = $scope.new assuming somehow something in memory is clogged or something.
My module looks like this:
'use strict';
(function () {
angular.module('areaModule', []).config(areaModule);
areaModule.$inject = ['$stateProvider'];
function areaModule($stateProvider) {
$stateProvider
.state('area', {
url: '/area',
templateUrl: 'app/assetManagement-app/modules/area/area.tmpl.html',
controller: 'area-controller'
});
}
})();
and the controller looks like this
'use strict';
(function () {
angular.module('areaModule').controller('area-controller', areaController);
areaController.$inject = ['$scope', '$state', 'areaService'];
function areaController($scope, $state, areaService) {
var vm = $scope;
// clean up any memory leaks
$scope.$on('$destroy', function () { });
// init()
vm.init = function () {
console.log('area controller');
};
vm.init();
return vm;
}
}());
and the template is here
<div class="container" style="margin: 10px 5px 10px 5px;">
<h1>Area Management View</h1>
</div>
What's going on?

Answer 1

It is a clash between href and state.go. If you remove href in your html It is working as expected.