Disable Jinja template caching for certain filter

Question

We have a custom Jinja filter that we use for creating cache busting URL for our Javascript and CSS resources. We now noticed that in our production environment the final, c

Answer 1

The easiest way to do this is:

On your flask server script do this:

from time import ctime

In your app.route() function,

in the return line add:

time=ctime()

for example:

return render_template('signup', error = error, time = ctime())

In the html reference for your css file(if using jinja2) add:

?{{time}}

at the end of your reference line.

That shoud look like this:

Worked pretty good for me and the browser stopped caching.

I hope it helps!

Cheers!

-Nelio