Changing current $state will "back" button instead of menu button

How not to keep view history as you use $state.go()?

Menu button (icon)

In ionic (v1.2.4), when we are trying to change current state to other state,
it'll substitute "menu" button as "Back" button :

  $state.go('app.home');

Back button (icon)

or even solution below also won't help from showing the back button (icon).

  $state.go('app.home', {}, {
    location: 'replace',
    reload: true,
    inherit: false
  });

And gratefully, until I found a solution on stackoverflow, where people also facing the same issue as I did.

with code

  $ionicHistory.nextViewOptions({
    disableBack: true
  });

is enough to achieve my expected ("refresh" view history) result.

angular.controller('AppCtrl', function($state, $ionicHistory) {
  
  $scope.goHome = function () {
    $ionicHistory.nextViewOptions({
      disableBack: true
    });
    $state.go('app.home');
  };

});

Manually refresh (and clear cache on) current page on IonicView as needed

Ionic v1.2.4

If you've looked around for a solution to manually clear cache and refresh current page, you'll more likely found solution like below.

$ionicHistory.clearCache().then(function () {
  $state.go($state.current, {} , {reload: true});
});

After I've tried the solution above, it doesn't really work as expected, and I don't see how it clear the view cache for current page.
My First try with

$ionicHistory.clearCache().then(function () {
  $state.go($state.current, {} , {reload: true});
});

the page/view would just be redirected with $state.go(), and does not has it cache cleared (it still shows the old content).

As I roughly went through the ionic.bundle.js, I found $ionicHistory.clearCache() actually does accept array value, stateIds, as parameter to clear the view cache specifically.

So, the final solution to the expected result (manually clear cache and refresh current page):

$ionicHistory.clearCache([$state.current.name]).then(function () {
  $state.go($state.current, {}, {reload: true});
});

As you can see, I added the [$state.current.name] to specifically assign each required view cache to be cleared. And so, that's what required for $ionicHistory.clearCache() to work properly.