Ionic 5 Pull/ Swipe Down to Refresh on Ionic Page Tutorial with Example Application

In this Ionic 5/4 tutorial, we’ll discuss pull or swipe down the page to refresh functionality in Ionic Angular application using the UI components available in the Ionic framework.

As seen in many Android native applications like chrome browser we usually have a user-friendly feature to pull down the page to refresh. A user just pulls or simply drag the page down to some limit then release, this acts like a an event handler to trigger some methods using which we can refresh the data on the page. Pull to refresh feature eliminates any need to tap or click somewhere.

This is a must-have feature in modern applications as most of the user tries to pull down the page to refresh something.. I personally do on some apps which even don’t provide such a feature 🙂

In the Ionic framework, we can easily implement the page refresher functionally by adding the combination of ion-refresher and ion-refresher-content components.

Let’s implement and discuss all configuration by building a real example application

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