Template don't rerender when id change

It seems that template don’t re render when the id change. For instance if my route looks like this:

FlowRouter.route('/u/:_id', {
  name: 'userItem',
  action: function() {
    console.log('go to ', FlowRouter.getParam('_id'));
    BlazeLayout.render( 'appBody', { main: 'userItem', options: {_id: FlowRouter.getParam('_id')} } );
  },
});

and I go from /u/id1 to /u/id2, I get a log as excepted, but the template is not re created. Is that by design of BlazeLayout? It would be nice to have an option to recreate the template, especially when doing template level subscriptions that should be closed when the id change.

[mklueh]

@MichaelJCole in my case it reloads the complete site which is really ugly.

Is there still no solution to force a route change on the same layout after over two years?

[afriC84]

Also ran into that problem. Same route, different params, no reaction. Calling BlazeLayout.reset() before FlowRouter.go() forces the re-render successfully, but I agree: that feels ugly.