Force CloudFront distribution/file update

Question

I\'m using Amazon\'s CloudFront to serve static files of my web apps.

Is there no way to tell a cloudfront distribution that it needs to refresh it\'s file or point

Answer 1

current AWS CLI support invalidation in preview mode. Run the following in your console once:

aws configure set preview.cloudfront true

I deploy my web project using npm. I have the following scripts in my package.json:

{
    "build.prod": "ng build --prod --aot",
    "aws.deploy": "aws s3 sync dist/ s3://www.mywebsite.com --delete --region us-east-1",
    "aws.invalidate": "aws cloudfront create-invalidation --distribution-id [MY_DISTRIBUTION_ID] --paths /",
    "deploy": "npm run build.prod && npm run aws.deploy && npm run aws.invalidate"
}

Having the scripts above in place you can deploy your site with:

npm run deploy