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Laravel Backpack not reflecting changes made to JS file on page refresh

Code based changes made to the javascript file that I am calling in setupCreateOperation() is not reflecting the changes made on page refresh.

    protected function setupCreateOperation(){
       Widget::add()->type('script')->content(asset('asset/user.js'));
       CRUD::setCreateView('users/create');
    }

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Attempted Solution

To add "versioning" to the JS file

Widget::add()->type('script')->src(asset('asset/user.js?v=' . time()));

However this results in the javascript file no longer being called and with there also being no errors when inspecting the browser.

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Solution

  • Laravel backpack already handles the "versioning" of the js files as can be seen by the random characters added after user.js.

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    The changes were not reflected because the browser was still referring to the cached js file. Need to do hard refresh of browser rather than regular refresh

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