Browser refresh on click of Home button using href

I have a question on writing angular testcases on browser refresh.
Angular is a single page application .there is no browser refresh after logging in. I am building a website with angular in the frontend but not entirely. You will see what i mean in the below example scenario

When I am in Contacts page of the application ,and I click on the logo ,it should navigate me to the homepage always.
I could have simply gone with router link, but there is a catch.
See when Iam in contacts page of the application, the contacts tab is selected in the left-nav-item. When i click on the logo to navigate to the home button, the selection should not be there anymore. means it should work like a browser refresh. For that ,Iam using href instead of router link

This will reload the page. See, what i mean when i said not fully angular .

Now my issue is with the testcases.I cant write element.click()

it("should navigate to home page on click of logo",() => {
const element = fixture.nativeElement.querySelector(".appName a") as HTMLElement;

spyOn(window.location, 'reload');
element.click();
expect(window.location.reload).toHaveBeenCalled();
});

here element.click() will reload the page and so the test cases also stop to return Not Found.

I need to trigger the click() here to check if the browser is refreshed.Any suggestion on how to achieve it?