force view to reload in ionic framework-open source projects driftyco/ionic
Welcome to the framework! Actually the routing in Ionic is powered by ui-router. You should probably check out this previous SO question to find a couple of different ways to accomplish this.
If you just want to reload the state you can use:
$state.go($state.current, {}, {reload: true});
If you actually want to reload the page (as in, you want to re-bootstrap everything) then you can use:
$window.location.reload(true)
Good luck!