Buttons do nothing after an update (hard refresh)

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If a page's buttons silently stop working right after a deploy, the browser tab is stale. A hard refresh fixes it.

Summary

If buttons on a page silently stop working right after an update, the open tab is running against code that no longer exists on the server. A hard refresh fixes it.

Steps

  1. Hard refresh the page: Ctrl+Shift+R (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+Shift+R (Mac).
  2. If it persists, close the tab and reopen the page.

Notes & tips

This only happens to a tab left open across a deployment. A normal reload is enough in most cases.

See also

Realtime reconnect