Visual Studio Development Server not updating css and javascript?

Question

I\'ve recently returned to a web site project that has been on the backburner. Since recommencing work I\'ve noticed css and javascript changes aren\'t being recognised by

Answer 1

If you always want to get the last version of js and CSS files, you could modify your StaticFile middleware like

app.UseStaticFiles(new StaticFileOptions()
{
    OnPrepareResponse = context =>
    {
        context.Context.Response.Headers.Add("Cache-Control", "no-cache, no-store");
        context.Context.Response.Headers.Add("Expires", "-1");
    }
});

or you could add asp-append-version="true" to your file references like: