How to use a cache buster on resources with Neos Flow and Flowpack CacheBuster

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Have you encountered that changes in your CSS, JS or images are not displayed in your application?

The webserver (or your browser – GRRR 😬) love to save and return the cached version of your static assets. In most cases because of HTTP Headers on the server (cache-control, max-age etc) and solely to help your users with a fast response.

But.. To avoid this, you can add a cache buster parameter to your static assets.

With the PHP Framework Flow it can be added by installation the package Flowpack CacheBuster package with composer

composer require flowpack/cachebuster

This will take your URI for you assets from this

http://localhost:8081/_Resources/Static/Packages/Vednor.Assets/Ui/application.js

to this

http://localhost:8081/_Resources/Static/Packages/Vednor.Assets/Ui/application.js?bust=153ca6ef

Notice the added ?bust=[string] – that make the URI somewhat unique depending on the content of the file.