Restart chrome browser on Ubuntu 16.04 when starting up Docker container running React

Question

I am working to deploy a docker container that runs a react app that performs a fetch request to another docker container running a node server. Docker is deployed on Ubuntu 16.04 but when I build the container and deploy, the chrome browser will continue to display the old UI until a hard refresh or browser restart is performed.

Is there a way for me to clear the browser cache, hard refresh or restart the browser when the react app starts? I am building the react app with create-react-app .

For reference, I am deploying this app on many machines so doing anything manual on the host machine is not ideal.

Answer 1

Docker caches the results of your first build to make it faster for subsequent builds. You could try this command to clear the cache when you deploy.

docker build --no-cache -t u12_core -f u12_core .

However I think your problem is with the browser cache on chrome.

You could disable cache when DevTools is open. (This option can be found inside Settings -> General)

Alternatively, you could use one of the chrome cache cleaner extensions .