Prevent a resource file from being cached

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I am trying to build a template playground where you could type go-text-template code in a markdown file and I could show the output on executing it. I have achieved this by a single page template with the following code:

<h1>Input</h1>
{{highlight .Content "go-text-template" ""}}
<h1>Output:</h1>
{{$content := .Content |resources.FromString "content.html"}}
{{$content = $content | resources.ExecuteAsTemplate "content.html" .}}
{{$content.Content | safeHTML}}

This does work and show the output correctly but not on live reload, as I think the resource file is cached and does not get reloaded. I have tried --disableFastRender flag but it doesn’t work. Is there a way I can force the re-render of this resource file on live reload. This is meant to be a learning tool and I don’t want to throw the students in the layouts folder just yet.

2

This sounds like you have the “template playground” running on hugo server. That is not really what this is built for. hugo server is for running your templates through a test website. Live servers don’t run on hugo server.

You could create a POST script that throws what is entered through hugo and shows the output, but I don’t think that will be a fast thing.

3

The post script will not be much different from the live server. I have found a workaround where I generate a new resource file on the fly by using the unix timestamp as the name of the resource. I don’t know if it will continue to work in the future but it does for now.

<h1>Input</h1>
{{highlight .Content "go-text-template" ""}}
<h1>Output</h1>
{{$name := (print now.Unix ".html")}}
{{$content := .Content |resources.FromString $name | resources.ExecuteAsTemplate $name .}}
{{$content.Content | safeHTML}}
4

It will.