If you are using UI router then you can use a decorator and update $templateFactory service and append a query string parameter to templateUrl, and the browser will always load the new template from the server.
function configureTemplateFactory($provide) {
// Set a suffix outside the decorator function
var cacheBust = Date.now().toString();
function templateFactoryDecorator($delegate) {
var fromUrl = angular.bind($delegate, $delegate.fromUrl);
$delegate.fromUrl = function (url, params) {
if (url !== null && angular.isDefined(url) && angular.isString(url)) {
url += (url.indexOf("?") === -1 ? "?" : "&");
url += "v=" + cacheBust;
}
return fromUrl(url, params);
};
return $delegate;
}
$provide.decorator('$templateFactory', ['$delegate', templateFactoryDecorator]);
}
app.config(['$provide', configureTemplateFactory]);
I am sure you can achieve the same result by decorating the "when" method in $routeProvider.