This menu gives you the option of doing a hard refresh, or even clearing the cache and do a hard refresh automatically. Once the chrome dev tools are open, just right click on the refresh button and a menu will drop down. Quick hard refresh can be done by using the following short cut keys How to do hard refresh on various browsers? A hard refresh will usually fix this, though occasionally completely clearing the cache is necessary. Sometimes, when changes are made to the website, they don’t register immediately due to caching. The only way to see the changes is by doing a hard refresh or clear the cache of the browser.Ī hard refresh is a way of clearing the browser’s cache for a specific page, to force it to load the most recent version of a page. But this can be really irritating while one is in development mode and constantly modifying the javascript or css style sheets. They primarily do this to increase the website performance. Modern day browsers nowadays cache every front end resource like javascript or CSS style sheets.

Browser cache are useful for web browsing, but a real pain point for developers.