Disable caching of a single file with try_files directive

Question

I\'m serving Angular 2 application with nginx using location section this way:

location / {
  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html =404;
}

try_file

Answer 1

You can use content-type mapping (should do the job for SPA with one .html file):

map $sent_http_content_type $expires {
    default                    off;
    text/html                  epoch; # means no-cache
}

server {
  expires $expires;
}