Django won't refresh staticfiles

Question

This is annoying. I have a javascript file referenced on a django template:

Answer 1

I was chasing a css static file change tonight. Going thru a Django tutorial. My Django html page would not show the updated css to my base.css file.

I would see the original base.css but no my update to file.This is on a dev environment.

I did not think django cached static on dev and only after running coll ecstatic in production.

For a quick work around I changed the name of my test sites. base.css file to base1.css and the html page link to base1.css

reloaded page and my updated css took affect. No best solution. but quick fix.