Disable caching: "New content is available; please refresh"

[elie222]

Is this a bug report?

No

Our app is often serving old data to users. We see this message in the console:

New content is available; please refresh

But I'd rather them just never get to the old version of the site at all. If the API has been updated, the frontend may no longer work correctly at all, which happens a bunch for our app. I'd rather a user always just ask for the latest version when he gets to the site. Netlify CDN will serve it fast enough, so I don't need this extra caching breaking things and causing unnecessary bugs. How can we get around this with CRA?

[elie222]

I found the relevant info and why this was happening. It's to do with:
https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/master/packages/react-scripts/template/README.md#making-a-progressive-web-app

Working out how to best handle this now.

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