render_bundle is serving old (cached?) file after some time

[magicznyleszek]

I have a problem with render_bundle serving old JS file after some time. Nothing I try to do helps. I see that the file being served is different than the one in webpack-stats.json.

The only thing I am able to do to make it work again is restarting my docker container 🙁

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This is my config:

WEBPACK_LOADER = {
    'DEFAULT': {
        'BUNDLE_DIR_NAME': 'jsapp/compiled/',
        'POLL_INTERVAL': 0.5,
        'TIMEOUT': 5,
    }
}

And I just simply use this in my html template:

{% load render_bundle from webpack_loader %}
{% render_bundle 'app' 'js' %}

[magicznyleszek]

I may be onto something! I discovered that our Dockerfile is .dockerignoring webpack-stats.json and then linking to the file outside. And I think the problem happens when the linking fails, maybe because when file is recreated?

[detectedstealth]

I'm finding this same problem when running through docker...

[ivanfr90]

Check if you are using any type of CACHE configuration in Django's settings.
I was suffering the same problem and I realized that I had setted the MemcachedCache for the local environment. For this reason when any *.js was changed, to see new changes I needed to restart my local environment server.

Otherwise, when you deploy on production, changed files need to be copied to the location where you store STATIC files.

[fjsj]

For posterity: possibly not django-webpack-loader specific. Closing for now.