Long-term Caching
Long Term Caching
To effectively cache your files, they should have a hash or version in their URL. You can emit or move the output files manually in a folder called v1.3. But this has several disadvantages: Extra work for the developer and unchanged files aren’t loaded from cache.
Webpack can add hashes for the files to the filename. Loaders that emit files (worker-loader, file-loader) already do this. For the chunks you have to enable it. There are two levels:
- Compute a hash of all chunks and add it.
- Compute a hash per chunk and add it.
Option 1: One hash for the bundle
Option 1 is enabled by adding [hash] to the filename config options:
webpack ./entry output.[hash].bundle.js
{
output: {
path: path.join(__dirname, "asset
