If you use the $resource service for getting data like a menu in combination with the $routeProvider service you need to request the data for the menu whenever the path changes, which causes the menu to blink.

It would be awesome if the $resource service would keep its data collected from the last request until the next comes in.

problem illustrated on jsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/4FfYb/3/

I had to solve the problem like this with an additional cache, which is probably not the right way to go, but it worked:

if ( angular.isArray( $scope.resourceObject)){
for(var i in cache){
$scope.resourceObject [i] = cache[i];
}
}else{
angular.extend( $scope.resourceObject ,cache);
}