How to prevent Browser cache on Angular 2 site

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We re currently working on a new project with regular updates that s being used daily by one of our clients  This project is being developed using angular 2 and we re facing cache issues  that is our clients are not seeing the latest changes on their machines   Mainly the html css files for the js files seem to get updated properly without giving much trouble

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In each html template I just add the following meta tags at the top:

<meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate">
<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache">
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0">

In my understanding each template is free standing therefore it does not inherit meta no caching rules setup in the index.html file.

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Found a way to do this  simply add a querystring to load your components  like so    Component     selector   some-component     templateUrl     app component stuff component html v   new Date   getTime        styleUrls      app component stuff component css v   new Date   getTime           This should force the client to load the server s copy of the template instead of the browser s  If you would like it to refresh only after a certain period of time you could use this ISOString instead   new Date   toISOString     2016-09-24T00 43 21 584Z   And substring some characters so that it will only change after an hour for example   new Date   toISOString   substr 0 13    2016-09-24T00   Hope this helps

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You can control client cache with HTTP headers  This works in any web framework   You can set the directives these headers to have fine grained control over how and when to enable disable cache    Cache-Control Surrogate-Control Expires ETag  very good one  Pragma  if you want to support old browsers    Good caching is good  but very complex  in all computer systems  Take a look at https   helmetjs github io docs nocache  the-headers for more information

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A combination of  Jack s answer and  ranierbit s answer should do the trick  Set the ng build flag for --output-hashing so  ng build --output-hashing all  Then add this class either in a service or in your app module  Injectable   export class NoCacheHeadersInterceptor implements HttpInterceptor       intercept req  HttpRequest lt any gt   next  HttpHandler            const authReq   req clone               setHeaders                     Cache-Control    no-cache                    Pragma   no-cache                                    return next handle authReq                Then add this to your providers in your app module  providers             other providers         provide  HTTP INTERCEPTORS      useClass  NoCacheHeadersInterceptor      multi  true               other providers    This should prevent caching issues on live sites for client machines

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I had similar issue with the index html being cached by the browser or more tricky by middle cdn proxies  F5 will not help you    I looked for a solution which verifies 100  that the client has the latest index html version  luckily I found this solution by Henrik Peinar   https   blog nodeswat com automagic-reload-for-clients-after-deploy-with-angular-4-8440c9fdd96c  The solution solve also the case where the client stays with the browser open for days  the client checks for updates on intervals and reload if newer version deployd   The solution is a bit tricky but works like a charm    use the fact that ng cli -- prod produces hashed files with one of them called main  hash  js create a version json file that contains that hash create an angular service VersionCheckService that checks version json and reload if needed   Note that a js script running after deployment creates for you both version json and replace the hash in angular service  so no manual work needed  but running post-build js   Since Henrik Peinar solution was for angular 4  there were minor changes  I place also the fixed scripts here   VersionCheckService    import   Injectable   from   angular core   import   HttpClient   from   angular common http     Injectable   export class VersionCheckService          this will be replaced by actual hash post-build js     private currentHash      POST BUILD ENTERS HASH HERE          constructor private http  HttpClient                     Checks in every set frequency the version of frontend application         param url         param  number  frequency - in milliseconds  defaults to 30 minutes             public initVersionCheck url  frequency   1000   60   30              check for first time         this checkVersion url             setInterval      gt                this checkVersion url              frequency                         Will do the call and check if the hash has changed or not         param url             private checkVersion url               timestamp these requests to invalidate caches         this http get url     t     new Date   getTime                 subscribe                   response  any    gt                        const hash   response hash                      const hashChanged   this hasHashChanged this currentHash  hash                           If new version  do something                     if  hashChanged                               ENTER YOUR CODE TO DO SOMETHING UPON VERSION CHANGE                            for an example  location reload                               or to ensure cdn miss  window location replace window location href     rand     Math random                                                  store the new hash so we wouldn t trigger versionChange again                        only necessary in case you did not force refresh                     this currentHash   hash                                      err    gt                        console error err   Could not get version                                                           Checks if hash has changed         This file has the JS hash  if it is a different one than in the version json        we are dealing with version change         param currentHash         param newHash         returns  boolean              private hasHashChanged currentHash  newHash            if   currentHash    currentHash        POST BUILD ENTERS HASH HERE                   return false                     return currentHash     newHash            change to main AppComponent    Component       selector   app-root       templateUrl     app component html       styleUrls      app component css      export class AppComponent implements OnInit       constructor private versionCheckService  VersionCheckService                ngOnInit             console log  AppComponent ngOnInit   environment versionCheckUrl     environment versionCheckUrl           if  environment versionCheckUrl                this versionCheckService initVersionCheck environment versionCheckUrl                        The post-build script that makes the magic  post-build js   const path   require  path    const fs   require  fs    const util   require  util        get application version from package json const appVersion   require     package json   version      promisify core API s const readDir   util promisify fs readdir   const writeFile   util promisify fs writeFile   const readFile   util promisify fs readFile    console log   nRunning post-build tasks        our version json will be in the dist folder const versionFilePath   path join   dirname        dist version json     let mainHash       let mainBundleFile           RegExp to find main bundle js  even if it doesn t include a hash in it s name  dev build  let mainBundleRegexp     main    a-z0-9     js        read the dist folder files and find the one we re looking for readDir path join   dirname      dist        then files   gt        mainBundleFile   files find f   gt  mainBundleRegexp test f         if  mainBundleFile          let matchHash   mainBundleFile match mainBundleRegexp             if it has a hash in it s name  mark it down       if  matchHash length  gt  1  amp  amp    matchHash 1             mainHash   matchHash 1                      console log  Writing version and hash to   versionFilePath             write current version and hash into the version json file     const src      version      appVersion     hash      mainHash          return writeFile versionFilePath  src        then      gt           main bundle file not found  dev build      if   mainBundleFile          return             console log  Replacing hash in the   mainBundleFile             replace hash placeholder in our main js file so the code knows it s current hash     const mainFilepath   path join   dirname      dist    mainBundleFile       return readFile mainFilepath   utf8          then mainFileData   gt            const replacedFile   mainFileData replace    POST BUILD ENTERS HASH HERE     mainHash           return writeFile mainFilepath  replacedFile                  catch err   gt        console log  Error with post build    err           simply place the script in  new  build folder run the script using node   build post-build js after building dist folder using ng build --prod

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angular-cli resolves this by providing an --output-hashing flag for the build  command  versions 6 7  for later versions see here   Example usage   ng build --output-hashing all   Bundling  amp  Tree-Shaking provides some details and context  Running ng help build  documents the flag   --output-hashing none all media bundles  String   Define the output filename cache-busting hashing mode  aliases  -oh  lt value gt   --outputHashing  lt value gt    Although this is only applicable to users of angular-cli  it works brilliantly and doesn t require any code changes or additional tooling   Update  A number of comments have helpfully and correctly pointed out that this answer adds a hash to the  js files but does nothing for index html  It is therefore entirely possible that index html remains cached after ng build cache busts the  js files   At this point I ll defer to How do we control web page caching  across all browsers

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