How to refresh a page in a backbone application

Question

I am using backbone to build my web app.

Currently I am facing an issue whereby if I am on the home page, I am unable to refresh the same page by just clicking on the 'home' button again.

I believe that this is the limitation provided by backbone (does not reload the page if the same URL is called)

Is there any way around this? So that I can trigger a page reload when I click on the home button again i.e. call the same URL again?

Answer 1

In case you want to reload the whole page with a desired view. This might make senes for the home button. The advantage will be that it'll refresh the memory.

Go to any route without loading it (without the 'true') and then reload

Backbone.history.navigate('route/goes/here');
window.location.reload();