How to force refresh the cached source files upon Ionic build/run?

Question

I have this random issue with ionic build or ionic run.

I\'ve noticed that during compilation it uses the cache of my source code, therefor

Answer 1

If you use cordova build, sudo cordova build <platform>

sudo cordova prepare

at your cordova project root folder.

this command reflects your changes to builds(all platforms).

Answer 2

Would like to answer this question as it wasted some real valuable time for me.

I emptied the platforms folder and build the solution again. BTW, I am using Visual Studio for development. And I should solve the problem.

Also it is quite obvious but still wanted to reiterate that platforms should not be part of source control.

Hope it helps.

Answer 3

I have deleted android-debug.apk from platforms/android/build/outputs/apk and then ionic cordova run android. It worked with no cache.

Answer 4

What I did to solve my problem was to do re-initialize the Android platform.

ionic cordova platform remove android then ionic cordova platform add android

goto task manager and kill java se process

Answer 5

Try

ionic repair

This is a full clean build of all yur packages Official Documentation: https://ionicframework.com/docs/cli/commands/repair

Answer 6

This might be a bug with Ionic, but to fix it usually I just ctrl+c then gulp and then re-run ionic serve.