How can I force clients to refresh JavaScript files?

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As far as I know a common solution is to add a ?<version> to the script’s src link.

For instance:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32414/myfile.js?1500"></script>

I assume at this point that there isn’t a better way than find-replace to increment these “version numbers” in all of the script tags?

You might have a version control system do that for you? Most version control systems have a way to automatically inject the revision number on check-in for instance.

It would look something like this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32414/myfile.js?$$REVISION$$"></script>

Of course, there are always better solutions like this one.

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