Is there a way to avoid cache in Laravel projects during development?

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I'm new to Laravel, and I'm not a front-end specialist, so I find myself trying classes, styles, combinations. So make a change, refresh the page, try another, refresh the page. Then other ordinary cases, I add a typo, fix the error, and refresh the page.

Every time I do this, something is cached, and I don't seem to find any way of skipping this, so I have to wait for a while until I can see my changes. How can I disable this?

Running the following is not working, nor a hard reload.

php artisan view:clear
php artisan cache:clear

I found that adding this on my .env file should do the trick. But it is not working either. Is there any other way? Also, what is the downside of doing this while developing locally?

CACHE_DRIVER=array
CACHE_EXPIRE=-1
laravel-8 laravel-mix laravel php
1 Answers

Use versioning in Laravel Mix. To assist with long-term caching, Laravel Mix provides the mix.version() method to enable file hashing, such as app.js?id=8e5c48eadbfdd5458ec6. This is useful for cache-busting purposes.

For example, see the following in webpack.mix.js.

let mix = require('laravel-mix');

mix.js('resources/js/app.js', 'public/js')
    .postCss('resources/css/app.css', 'public/css', [
        //
    ])
    .version();
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