I'm accessing HTML/JS files on localhost served by Node. When I update the code, Webpack automatically rebuilds the JS files.
Sometimes, after I update some code and refresh the page, the JS file download hangs forever. It still hangs after:
- refreshing
- opening the JS file directly
- opening the HTML in a separate tab
- waiting a long enough time that the file definitely finished rebuilding
- restarting the Node server
It occurs whether or not Devtools is open.
The only ways I've found to stop it from hanging are:
- closing the original tab
- going to the localhost root (http://localhost/)
Why does this happen? I'm using Chrome 88 on Windows 10. I think this is caused by Chrome and not Node, since restarting the Node server didn't do anything.