How to force PWA refresh?

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What’s the best way to force a refresh on user devices when I publish a new version of my PWA?

Thanks!

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Hi @clncsports :wave:

Apologies for the late reply!

The refresh should be automatic. Are you seeing a different behavior?

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Thanks for the reply, @Joyce!

How do you mean exactly? The PWA has a way to tell that it’s not using the latest version and refreshes itself upon open?

Thanks!

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Yes. There is a version each time you publish and it checks the version. That is standard PWA, not specific to WeWeb

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Excellent, thanks @Joyce! Looking forward to push notifications next year!

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Hey @Joyce
Question : is it possible to enable « pull to refresh » in a PWA ?

Thanks !

Have a great day

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Yes @Philibert

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Thank you ! You know how I could achieve this with WeWeb default PWA pluggin ?

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You will need some custom js and touch triggers: Triggers | WeWeb Documentation

The plugin focuses more on features like notifications, geolocation, device motion, battery status, and sharing

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Alright thanks,

For now I wish to avoid making diy stuff on something like this. I have seen on some dev forums it has been discussed.
Would be nice to have this as a checkbox in the PWA settings in weweb (in More > PWA) :wink:

Or an action like “reload app” that could be triggered by a button or by a touch trigger as you mentionned