Local server not reflecting updated files

node.js phaser-framework httpserver
Jake Moritz picture Jake Moritz · Mar 17, 2015 · Viewed 25.9k times · Source

I'm fairly new at user local servers. I'm using the http-server which is a package from Node. I'm using it to host an HTML5 game using the Phaser library. I have image assets I'm using in the game, and I sometimes update these assets. When I do, the changes to the images aren't reflected in the game. I've tried restarting the server but that doesn't help. It usually takes some time for them to update, maybe about an hour. Any ideas what's going wrong?

Answer

tonyedwardspz picture tonyedwardspz · Apr 5, 2015

The browser might be caching your code and/or assets.

In Chrome, with dev tools open (Right click -> Inspect element) you can right click on the refresh button and 'empty cache and hard reload'.

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