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Re:Designing very large JavaScript applications by kilburn on Saturday April 21, 2018 @03:48PM (#16893050)
But you need some cache-busting functionality anyways (otherwise how does the client know that file "something.js" has changed?
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Re:Designing very large JavaScript applications by ec109685 on Saturday April 21, 2018 @10:26PM (#16894404)
Etags could be used to cause the browser to revalidate the contents without too much overhead since the connection is already establishd, but good point.
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