Ember.Router.generate

At work we had a story where we wanted an error state to have a link to do a hard page refresh to get rid of potentially bad state on the page. We were optimistically rendering the result before the promise had resolved. If the promise came back in a failed state, we would display a global error message as the user was transitioned away and may have even navigated further away. The desired outcome would be that the user would just refresh the page and stay exactly where they were. This would clear our in memory objects and fetch the clean data from the server, resetting the app. In order to keep the user on the page they were currently on, we did was the following:

// app/controllers/application.js
import Ember from "ember";

export default Ember.Controller.extend({
  actions: {
    reload: function() {
      var router = this.container.lookup("router:main");
      window.location.hash = router.generate(this.get("currentPath"));
      window.location.reload();
    }
  }
});

// app/templates/application.hbs
<div id="global-error">
  Some bad happened. Please refresh the page.
  <button {{action "reload"}} id="reload-button">Refresh</button>
</div>