Load Page Without Cache, Without Flushing The Cache in Magento 2

Question

I am just curious to know if we can execute the page without cache, without flushing the actual cache like other framework do eg :

in Symfony if we add /app_dev.php in URL, it load the respective template without cache which help the developer to check live changes.

So is there any way in Magento 2 to load a page without cache eg: if we execute www.example.com/home?no_cache=1 ? Here no_cache=1 is just an example parameter. It will help the developer to check live changes on the page, because flushing the cache again and again is a time consuming and not a feasible way to flush cache on production mode. Sometime we have to make changes on production mode so it might be helpful to pass a param on url to execute the specific page without cache. How do I achieve this with Magento?

Answer 1

There is no such thing i am afraid (within the url).

But what is the reason behind this? You do not need to flush the cache on a production environment.

If the reason why you ask this is because you do not want your customers to get slowed down then just 'refresh' the cache items that you need to refresh.

if you go to system >> Cache Management and there you just select the cache types that have a red status and then you press 'submit' while you have selected 'refresh' your cache is not deleted but refreshed.

This is the right way to use it when you change things like pages , blocks , configurations , etc etc

We never flush the cache on a live environment except during maintenance hours.

Next thing is that (this is not tested on my end) you can give your browser headers. In Magento you have the value

Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0

Expires: -1

x-Cache: uncached

The X-cache is if you have Varnish if im not wrong Like i said i never tested this but maybe you can use something like Postman (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman/fhbjgbiflinjbdggehcddcbncdddomop) in order too define these headers and request your page without cache.

Hope this was somehow helpful for you even though i need to dissapoint you on the url thing.