Updating a node app

[A Former User]

I'm packaging an app I built here: https://git.cloudron.io/AtriLahiji/eleutheriapay-app

I tested installing 0.1.9 of my app and then building & updating to 0.2.0 but it didn't seem to change. Is there something I'm missing? I'm not incredibly experienced with Docker so I feel like theres something I'm messing up in the Dockerfile but I honestly cant see why it wouldn't just replace the contents of the /app/code directory.

[A Former User]

For context, the app is structured like so: https://git.lahijiapps.dev/atrilahiji/personal-site

What I am aiming for:

• Frontend and Backend folders to be updated
• The logo and favicon in the frontend/dist folders after installation should be preserved somehow
• the .env file in /app/code should be preserved if it already exists

[girish]

@atrilahiji said in Updating a node app:

I tested installing 0.1.9 of my app and then building & updating to 0.2.0 but it didn't seem to change

What didn't change? Did you do cloudron build and then cloudron update after you change the Dockerfile?

[A Former User]

@girish Oh so I made a pretty distinct change to the UI of my app between the 2 versions but didnt notice the change as if it still had the old frontend code. I'll try it again incase I goofed something up real bad

[A Former User]

No luck

I still get the old UI

[girish]

@atrilahiji said in Updating a node app:

but I honestly cant see why it wouldn't just replace the contents of the /app/code directory

Let's start with this. When you do cloudron exec do you see the latest code in /app/code ?

If not, are you sure the cloudron build and cloudron update is succeeding (maybe paste the output here)?

[mehdi]

@atrilahiji Also, some browsers are a bit ... aggressive with their caching policies. You may want to force-refresh (ctrl/cmd + shift + R in most browsers), maybe even a few times, before anything else, just to check it wasn't just cache

[Lonkle]

@mehdi said in Updating a node app:

@atrilahiji Also, some browsers are a bit ... aggressive with their caching policies. You may want to force-refresh (ctrl/cmd + shift + R in most browsers), maybe even a few times, before anything else, just to check it wasn't just cache

This has been my experience as well.