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 can often modify your route to include a splat, so that you can append a random string to the end of an href to make it unique, but still match the "home" route. (Note: make this your last route.)

In the routes:

routes: {
    "*str": "home"
}

In the view:

render: function() {
    var data = {href: +(new Date())};
    _.extend(data, this.model.attributes);
    this.$el.html(this.template(data));
    return this;
}

In the template (handlebars shown here):

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