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

You could also just make a meaningless change to the url by adding a random number to the end:

var url = $(this).attr('href') + '?rand=' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000);
Backbone.history.navigate(url, true);

This is especially useful for IE since it will not request new data via an AJAX call if the url has not changed.