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Your LimeSurvey version: Community Edition — 6.16.3+251215 
Own server or LimeSurvey hosting: Ubuntu 24.x
Survey theme/template: Custom
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Problem:
I am trying to develop a custom theme and need to disable the front-end cache as clicking the clear cache button in Global Settings takes too long during rapid development.

What I have tried:
- I've modified the  file, changing the setting which is supposed to disable caching, but doing so and clearing all caches and making css changes does not work.
- I've search the docs, but haven't found anything.
- I've searched these forums but only found the reco from many years ago.

I'm new to LimeSurvey as a platform (but not new to web dev) so maybe there is something more obvious I am missing, any help to make it easier to develop themes for this great platform would be appreciated.

Can you check HTML source ? It's still used asset link ?

I should have added that this is happening in the "Preview Survey" mode - that might have an impact. I checked the source and it's loading the cached css and it's not the browser cache.

AdrianJean wrote:

I should have added that this is happening in the "Preview Survey" mode - that might have an impact. I checked the source and it's loading the cached css and it's not the browser cache.
 

What is the link for css and js ? Include assets/[randomnumber] ? Can you send a screenshot ?

Pëase : be more clear in your explanation!

I did some additional testing.
Seem changes to the .twig files (HTML and twig code) seem to refresh ok.
However, any CSS changes seem to be cached, and require a clear from the Global Settings to see the changes.
Using dev tools, I can see that custom.css is being loaded from tmp/assets

 

Here is a series of screenshots that hopefully help explain what I am seeing.

 


 

>  Using dev tools, I can see that custom.css is being loaded from tmp/assets

Buit you show the screenshot after where file custom.css didn't include assets/randomnumber/

I don't understand here ?