I use Flask and python. I have updatable .html file in my templates folder.
For updating .html file I delete it before rendering and then write it again.
if os.path.isfile(html_file):
os.unlink(html_file)
html_text = ['bla', 'bla'] # that's the part that changes every time
with open(html_file, 'w') as f:
f.writelines(html_text)
File is deleted, then created and written properly.
Then I call it:
@app.route('/html_file')
def show_html_file():
return render_template('html_file.html')
First time render_template returns proper file. But then, not matter: updated .html file or even deleted, route /html_file show only old version of file. I've tried to force browser to force refresh ignoring caching, tried different browsers. I still got first version of .html file.
How to fix it?
It looks like templates by default are not updatable. And it must be forced.
Here is a way how to do it:
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['TEMPLATES_AUTO_RELOAD'] = True