When developing frontend sometimes i use NodeJs and Xampp as servers. Sometimes Caching of static files becomes a problem such as styles dont update even though the css files are modified. So i needed to disable the caching.
XAMPP Server
Edit httpd.conf ([xampp folder]/apache/conf/http.conf) file and add following at the end:
# Don't cache html, htm, js, css
<filesMatch "\.(html|htm|js|css)$"> FileETag None <ifModule mod_headers.c> Header unset ETag Header set Cache-Control "max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate" Header set Pragma "no-cache" Header set Expires "Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT" </ifModule>
</filesMatch>
NodeJS Server
Use nocache module.
pnpm i nocache
const nocache = require('nocache');
app.use(nocache());
OR
Use set etag to false
app.set('etag', false);
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