CODEWITHSUNDEEP
visual-studio-codecaching
user2522885
user2522885

Reputation: 615

Web Development :: VSCode, Live Server Plugin, Firefox -- Browser Always Caching, Not Refreshing

I'm using VSCode, Live Server plugin for HTML5 web development. When i make a change to my web page then save Live Server should refresh what i see within Firefox. It does refresh but it is always to the oldest cache of the web page when live server first started up. I must always tap CTRL-F5 to force a web page refresh within firefox. The moment i save again within VSCode, the browser display reverts right back to the oldest, first copy.

I've already tried enabling "Disable Cache" within the FF Dev Tools > Networking area. Didnt help. I've tried about.config | browser.cache.disk.enable set to false. Didnt help.

Just wondering if this is normal behavior or if the Live Server plugin (Ritwick Dey) for VSCode is broken.

At the present time

Upvotes: 0

Views: 907

Answers (1)

user2522885
user2522885

Reputation: 615

Ok it seemsthe problem was i was using a service worker (sw.js). The browser saw the file, autoloaded it and apparently took full control over caching in the browser -- basically, no matter what i did caching and refreshing was meaningless. I really need to understand this sw.js thing.

Upvotes: 0

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