How can it even be possible? You ask to yourself for a split second, then you quickly realize that you’re hitting one of the simplest, yet most annoying issues of all time: the mere existence of a browser’s and/or proxy’s cache which is still holding the previous version of your updated file.

One of the most common scenarios is the following: you publish a new version of your web application that seems to work well, then – despite all your debug and tests – your friends, colleagues and/or users are unable to see the new stuff due to the fact that some old CSS or JS file is being still used by their client, despite you are 100% sure you replaced it on the server with a new version. Adding the appsettings.json file to the loopĮvery seasoned web developer experienced at least once some cache-related issue with static files.