Stop saving in cache memory Flutter web Firebase hosting

Question

I designed a web app using the Flutter web. I hosted it with Firebase host. But It's not showing changes of my code after deploying to firebase. It's still showing my older version of web app. But I can overcome this problem by clearing cache memory of browser or ctrl+refresh. But I don't want to do this every time I deploy to firebase. How to stop saving my web app in cache memory?

hosted link: https://frcovid19dashboard.web.app

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unbalanced_equation · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-27T14:21:54.290

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Append a version number to your main.dart file. Every time you do changes that require the browser to clear cash, change the appended version number before you upload changes so the browser knows something has change and it needs to clear the cash. For example:

First Version:

<script src="main.dart.js?version=1" type="application/javascript"></script>

Next time you make changes:

<script src="main.dart.js?version=2" type="application/javascript"></script>

And so on. Check this link.

edited May 27 '20 at 14:21

answered Apr 18 '20 at 09:46

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This is not working for me. Is there another approach? – Gustavo Contreiras May 21 '20 at 00:50
@GustavoContreiras Try https://stackoverflow.com/a/65110613/13617136 – iqFareez May 10 '21 at 08:36
where do i put this? because when i put this and deploy into server it will return error 404 since it cannot detect the js file https://urlname.com/main.dart.js?version =1 – ali Jan 21 '22 at 18:37

klydra · Answer 2 · 2021-07-02T15:20:32.447

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Another approach would be to prevent caching via HTTP headers. For Firebase Hosting that would be : https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/full-config#headers

I guess you could set up something like this inside the site entry in your firebase.json:

"headers": [
  {
    "source": "**",
    "headers": [
      {
        "key": "Cache-Control",
        "value": "no-cache"
      }
    ]
  }
]

edited Jul 02 '21 at 15:20

answered Aug 16 '20 at 12:29

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for those who are wondering where to add it, It took quite a minute too xD, add this into your ```firebase.json``` file in your fluutter project. Thanks @klydra – Manish Jul 01 '21 at 03:47
Added it to the post. Glad it helped @ManishKumar :D – klydra Jul 02 '21 at 15:22
This didn't work for me. – Frederic Oct 18 '21 at 17:35
In light of the discussion here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49547 it might be worth replacing the line `"value": "no-cache"` from this answer with `"value": "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"`. – CKP78 Nov 18 '21 at 13:46

Stop saving in cache memory Flutter web Firebase hosting

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