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 \'

Answer 1

I needed to 'refresh' my page on orientation change event because not all of my css media queries for portrait mode where executed correctly by default. This is what I ended up doing:

Backbone.history.fragment = null;
Backbone.history.navigate(document.location.hash, true); 

Of course, for the completeness of this answer, this was wrapped in some orientation change handling code:

window.addEventListener('orientationchange', function () {
    Backbone.history.fragment = null;
    Backbone.history.navigate(document.location.hash, true); 
}, false);