How to prevent Browser cache on Angular 2 site?

Question

We\'re currently working on a new project with regular updates that\'s being used daily by one of our clients. This project is being developed using angular 2 and we\'re fac

Answer 1

A combination of @Jack's answer and @ranierbit's answer should do the trick.

Set the ng build flag for --output-hashing so:

ng build --output-hashing=all

Then add this class either in a service or in your app.module

@Injectable()
export class NoCacheHeadersInterceptor implements HttpInterceptor {
    intercept(req: HttpRequest, next: HttpHandler) {
        const authReq = req.clone({
            setHeaders: {
                'Cache-Control': 'no-cache',
                 Pragma: 'no-cache'
            }
        });
        return next.handle(authReq);    
    }
}

Then add this to your providers in your app.module:

providers: [
  ... // other providers
  {
    provide: HTTP_INTERCEPTORS,
    useClass: NoCacheHeadersInterceptor,
    multi: true
  },
  ... // other providers
]

This should prevent caching issues on live sites for client machines