From 385443522b3affd274ecaad6a113ee24c45ae99c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: owain <owain@jarrett.eu>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:00:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] frontend nginx: no-cache on index.html so deploys aren't
 masked by stale SPA shell (Edge heuristic caching)

---
 frontend/nginx-spa.conf                  | 8 ++++++++
 milevault_export/frontend/nginx-spa.conf | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/frontend/nginx-spa.conf b/frontend/nginx-spa.conf
index 55f7e0a..c1af1a6 100644
--- a/frontend/nginx-spa.conf
+++ b/frontend/nginx-spa.conf
@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@ server {
         try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
     }
 
+    # Never let the browser serve a stale SPA shell: it references hashed asset
+    # filenames, so a cached index.html strands users on an old build after a
+    # deploy (Edge heuristically caches it when no Cache-Control is set). Force
+    # revalidation — a cheap 304 when unchanged — so new deploys are picked up.
+    location = /index.html {
+        add_header Cache-Control "no-cache";
+    }
+
     location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|svg|woff2)$ {
         expires 1y;
         add_header Cache-Control "public, immutable";
diff --git a/milevault_export/frontend/nginx-spa.conf b/milevault_export/frontend/nginx-spa.conf
index 55f7e0a..c1af1a6 100644
--- a/milevault_export/frontend/nginx-spa.conf
+++ b/milevault_export/frontend/nginx-spa.conf
@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@ server {
         try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html;
     }
 
+    # Never let the browser serve a stale SPA shell: it references hashed asset
+    # filenames, so a cached index.html strands users on an old build after a
+    # deploy (Edge heuristically caches it when no Cache-Control is set). Force
+    # revalidation — a cheap 304 when unchanged — so new deploys are picked up.
+    location = /index.html {
+        add_header Cache-Control "no-cache";
+    }
+
     location ~* \.(js|css|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|ico|svg|woff2)$ {
         expires 1y;
         add_header Cache-Control "public, immutable";