How are js files merged?

[alexiskattan]

I'm making a small change to one js file. In development mode everything is fine. However, when I push it to the server, even if a file is changed, the merged files are still getting the same name.

So even after a file is changed there production server is still serving:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/javascripts/cache_123.....123.js"></script>

So people have to clear their cache to get the new update, which is hard to explain...

In production.coffee I have:

app.enable 'merge javascripts'

Is there a way to less aggressively cache? Or a way to make it change the file name on every push?

[anatoliychakkaev]

Nope, it's not implemented at the moment. The fix is simple by the way: we
should calculate cache name based on filename and mtime, not just filename.

On 21 April 2014 06:45, alexiskattan notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm making a small change to one js file. In development mode everything
is fine. However, when I push it to the server, even if a file is changed,
the merged files are still getting the same name.

So even after a file is changed there production server is still serving:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/javascripts/cache_123.....123.js"></script>

So people have to clear their cache to get the new update, which is hard
to explain...

In production.coffee I have:

app.enable 'merge javascripts'

Is there a way to less aggressively cache? Or a way to make it change the
file name on every push?

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[alexiskattan]

It would be awesome if this is fixed. There are some issues that keep coming up with regards to it.

[sagish]

+1 on this, users do not get update CSS or JS in production unless they activley refresh the page

[alexiskattan]

omg. thank you.

[alexiskattan]

@anatoliychakkaev would it be possible to push this version to npm soon? Thank you so much again for the platform it is really wonderful.