`onSameUrlNavigation` only affects whether the Angular Router processes the URL and runs it through the navigation pipeline, retriggering redirects, guards, and resolvers. The name `reload` is a little confusing because it does _not_ reload the component. Developers _also_ need to implement a custom `RouteReuseStrategy` to trigger a component reload on same URL navigation. Fixes #21115 PR Close #42275
Angular Router
Managing state transitions is one of the hardest parts of building applications. This is especially true on the web, where you also need to ensure that the state is reflected in the URL. In addition, we often want to split applications into multiple bundles and load them on demand. Doing this transparently isn’t trivial.
The Angular router is designed to solve these problems. Using the router, you can declaratively specify application state, manage state transitions while taking care of the URL, and load components on demand.
Guide
Read the dev guide here.