How to force refresh the cached source files upon Ionic build/run?

Question

I have this random issue with ionic build or ionic run.

I've noticed that during compilation it uses the cache of my source code, therefore when making new changes it doesn't reflect upon re-compiling the app.

So my question is, how can you clear the cache for the build files? I've tried doing ionic state reset but still it doesn't work nor doing uninstall then re-install the app from my Android.

Thanks

Solution 1

What I did to solve my problem was to do re-initialize the Android platform.

ionic cordova platform remove android then ionic cordova platform add android

goto task manager and kill java se process

Solution 2

You need to increment your app version on your config.xml (at the top of your project folder) to reflect your changes before running:

<widget id="com.yourapp.id" version="0.0.8" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0"

On this example, increment the attribute version to 0.0.9: version="0.0.9".

Then run android or run ios.

Solution 3

Remove platform :

ionic cordova platform rm android

Re add platform :

ionic cordova platform add android

Step 1) copy www folder specific platform

ionic cordova prepare android

Step 2) build apk

ionic cordova build android

Step 3) deploy latest apk in device

ionic cordova run android

Solution 4

If you use cordova build, sudo cordova build <platform>

sudo cordova prepare

at your cordova project root folder.

this command reflects your changes to builds(all platforms).

Solution 5

This might be a bug with Ionic, but to fix it usually I just ctrl+c then gulp and then re-run ionic serve.

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Comments

[Swapnil Shende]

possible duplicate of Is it possible to clear the view cache in Ionic?

[Rene Padillo]

@SwapnilShende I think this isn't a duplicate question, because my issue is with the Ionic build not with views.

[InfinitePrime]

Does this really happen? I am not sure on this. If you can reproduce it, then open an issue on github

[Rene Padillo]

@InfinitePrime yes, I'm stuck with the build for an hour already, I've doubled check everything but it seems it's using a cached source files upon building. I'll try to investigate on how to reproduce the problem.

[Sandy]

@InfinitePrime Yes it really happens. All of a sudden it started happening in my ionic. And no matter what I do, clear browser history, restart IIS and all crazy stuff, my ionic is stuck with 2 days old changes.

[dbinott]

2 years and this still seems like an issue because it is happening to me. What's the point of live reload if it doesn't reload? To have to reinit the platform each time is ludicrous.

[Khurshid Ansari]

in which platform are you facing this problem. I think you are facing problem in ios.

[Ratata Tata]

the fast way, if you are changing something on the config.xml.

[jonan.pineda]

in ionic 2 use ionic cordova platform update android

[LavenPillay]

For ionic 3 i used : ionic cordova platform remove android ionic cordova platform add android<br>

[Simão Garcia]

I've solved a similiar problem in Ionic V3 with: cordova clean

[Yudhistira Bayu]

I've run remove and add platform won't work, and this is the only solution work if remove and add platform wont change anything

[Patrick Kenny]

This also works for pwa build problems, not just Android and iOS.