force view to reload in ionic2 framework

Found this answer here, (please note especially the line this.navCtrl.setRoot(this.navCtrl.getActive().component); which is by far the simplest solution that I've come across to reload present page for Ionic 2 & 3 and later versions of Angular (mine is 4), so credit due accordingly:

RELOAD CURRENT PAGE

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { NavController, ModalController} from 'ionic-angular';

@Component({
  selector: 'page-example',
  templateUrl: 'example.html'
})
export class ExamplePage {

  public someVar: any;

  constructor(public navCtrl: NavController, private modalCtrl: ModalController) {

  }

  refreshPage() {
    this.navCtrl.setRoot(this.navCtrl.getActive().component);
  }

}

If you want to RELOAD A DIFFERENT PAGE please use the following (note this.navCtrl.setRoot(HomePage);:

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { NavController, ModalController} from 'ionic-angular';
import { HomePage } from'../home/home';

@Component({
  selector: 'page-example',
  templateUrl: 'example.html'
})
export class ExamplePage {

  public someVar: any;

  constructor(public navCtrl: NavController, private modalCtrl: ModalController) {

  }

  directToNewPage() {
    this.navCtrl.setRoot(HomePage);
  }

}

Ionic 1

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I haven't used Ionic 2 but currently i m using Ionic 1.2 and if they are still using ui-router than you can use reload: true in ui-sref

or you can add below code to your logout controller

$state.transitionTo($state.current, $stateParams, {
    reload: true,
    inherit: false,
    notify: true
});

Angular 2

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Use

$window.location.reload();

or

location.reload();