Routing to "initial" state

ionic-v1
#1

Looking at http://ionicframework.com/docs/api/directive/ionNavView/ if you click on the Scientific Facts button, then click on the More Facts button, there is a button to get back to Home. But you’ll notice when doing so the Home page/view show is not the Home we started at. It has a back button (Also Factual). My question is how would one go back to the initial state/page and lose the navigation history on purpose?

#2

Found my answer within this thread - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27930702/ionic-framework-state-goapp-home-is-adding-back-button-on-page-where-i-wan.

I used the suggestion to run the statement below before hitting $state.go(). Ensure to inject the $ionicHistory service in the controller.

$ionicHistory.nextViewOptions({disableBack: true});
#3

if you are on your “root”-state call:
$ionicHistory.clearHistory()

It will clear ionic navigation history.

i am doing this like in a base-controller for my app:

$rootScope.$on('$stateChangeSuccess', function (event, toState) {
   if (toState.name === 'myBaseStateName') {
     $ionicHistory.clearHistory();
   }
});

now it depends if you do not enabled view-caching you can put:
$ionicHistory.clearHistory(); directly in your startpage controller

if you have caching enabled you can listen on ionic view events in your startpage controller.

$rootScope.$on('$ionicView.enter', function () {
    $ionicHistory.clearHistory();
});