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Re:Floatplane – Linus Tech Tips launches their own video hos... by arkanciscan on Monday December 16, 2019 @01:29PM (#21805587)
In Webpack the chunks whose content don't change don't get new file names and so the cache needn't be invalidated for them. Vendor code which is often the largest part, can stay cached over many deployments so long as the versions are locked. Of course, your host could still send no-cache headers and invalidate everything, but that's a problem with the host/cdn.
Re:Floatplane – Linus Tech Tips launches their own video hos... by mhd on Monday December 16, 2019 @02:38PM (#21806339)
Sure, I really do hope that engineers do their best to fix things, but in the sad world of contemporary web frontends, I'm a bit pessimistic (then again, if one has to err on the side of build system over-engineering, you're rarey disappointed).

Still, if the deployment system involves frequent node module updates, the vendor files get "dirty" quickly, too.

Re:Floatplane – Linus Tech Tips launches their own video hos... by arkanciscan on Monday December 16, 2019 @04:44PM (#21807599)
Sad!? You must not be old enough to remember when we used the global namespace for modules, and there was no console.log(). You wanna talk about sad, try debugging with alert().