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Hot restart with Chrome and --web-experimental-hot-reload results in files with gen=N suffixes #166294
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If you run an app with flutter run -d chrome --web-experimental-hot-reload, change a file, and then do a hot restart, you'll see that file's JS code file being loaded with a gen=1 suffix. You'll also see the old file in the sources tab.
This is confusing to users and doesn't actually do anything. It was intended to help with cache-busting, but that was for a multi-app scenario that Flutter tools does not come across.
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Remove unnecessary cache busting mechanism in hot restart (#166295)
github-actions commentedon Apr 29, 2025
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