Hi there, I was wondering what options might exist to make the cached Javascript in users’ browser sessions update when I change the image URLs and/or <href> links in this script, which is added as custom HTML in the Head section of a new theme component:
With this current widget code it requires a browser refresh for users to see the newly updated images or changed links. I assumed that this would update via some sort of AJAX method in browser caches, just like CSS changes are reflected immediately without a page reload, but that’s not the case with custom Head scripts.
I noticed that the Ad plugin for house ads somehow manages to force a refresh immediately after changing the HTML for the ad. For the House Ads plugin I found the following in house-ads.js when searching for the keyword refresh :
@observes("refreshOnChange")
refreshAd() {
if (this.get("listLoading")) {
return;
}
this.set("adHtml", this.chooseAdHtml());
},
didInsertElement() {
this._super(...arguments);
if (!this.get("showAd")) {
return;
}
if (this.get("listLoading")) {
return;
}
if (adIndex.topic_list_top === null) {
// start at a random spot in the ad inventory
Object.keys(adIndex).forEach((placement) => {
const adNames = this.adsNamesForSlot(placement);
adIndex[placement] = Math.floor(Math.random() * adNames.length);
});
}
this.refreshAd();
},
Would a similar method somehow be applicable for my custom plugin Javascript?