Use grunt-rev to avoid caching of css and js files

[alex6o]

hi! at first thx for the great work ;) i have seen that ngboilerplate uses version number as prefix for compiled js and css files, but is it possible to add an plugin like https://github.com/cbas/grunt-rev to generate a hash prefix that is based on the filecontent? this could automatically prevent browsers from using a cached version of the script.

[joshdmiller]

Thanks - I'm glad you're finding it useful. :-)

The reason we added the version number was to prevent browser caching; the idea is that if you change your app, the version number should change and therefore so will the file names - I'm a fan of semantic versioning. I'm not opposed to using something like grunt-rev, but I would need a compelling reason to do that over just the version numbers. Is there a reason why the version numbers would not be used?

[alex6o]

Ah josh I am sorry i have not seen that nice bump plugin that allows us to increment the version number over the console. The only reason for me to use grunt-rev was that it automatically prefixes the files without any further commands. On the other side, during devlopment the hash approach could be very useful to prevent issues produced by caching.

[joshdmiller]

@mrmuh As I said, I am not opposed to this if there is a good use case. If serving files over file:// during development, there is no caching. Are you running into a caching problem in your development process right now?