I am using Laravel to generate files for what would otherwise be inline JS and CSS.
The web.php configuration is:
Route::get('/js/words.js', function() {
$words = Word::get();
return response()->view('words', compact('words'))->header('Content-Type', 'text/javascript');
});
When I deploy this to the server initially everything is fine. But then, when I add a simple CSS/JS caching policy to the Nginx configuration, the generated CSS/JS breaks.
The Nginx configuration is:
location ~* \.(css|js)$ {
expires 30d;
}
Does anybody else do this to avoid inline CSS/JS, and if so, how do you enable caching without breaking the generated files?
I've used it like this
location ~* \.(?:css|js)$ {
expires 365d;
access_log off;
add_header Cache-Control "public";
}
and make sure to restart the nginx server
sudo systemctl restart nginx