Redirect, Refresh, and Access the URL of the Current Page in JavaScript

JavaScript’s location object

Location CheatSheet.

You can use the window.location property to access the URL of the current page .

If you want to go to a new page , either you can change the href property of history object or call assign method with new url as argument.

location.href = "new url";
// or we can use 
location.assign("new url");

For redirecting without storing in history:

location.replace("new url"); 

For reloading the page:

window.location.reload()

Force refresh

We can pass true to force the reloaded page to come from the server (instead of the cache). Alternatively, we can use false to reload the page from the cache.

//from cache
window.location.reload(); 
window.location.reload(false);
// from server
window.location.reload(true);

Properties of Location Object

1. Href

Contains the entire URL of the page.

location.href; // current page url addresss