The Web developer's equivalent to, "have you turn it off and on again":

"Try clearing the cache"

This is where cachebusting comes in handy!

Technically to be more similiar to a power off it should be
"have you tried to close your browser and open it again"

@shelladdicted that won't clear the cache though, will it?

@Hedgepig of couse, but close and open are more similiar to turn off and turn on.

@shelladdicted I guess, though I was more making a point about the mantra pertaining to the solution of what seems like 90% of the problems we face as web developers.

Restarting the browser will probably not solve the problem ;)

@Hedgepig i know, that is why i used "technically" ;-)

Anyway i think the other 10% is caused by chrome and IE/Edge.
;-)

@Hedgepig in my case it will i always set to clean everything on close.

@shelladdicted yeah we're splitting hairs really aren't we.

No doubt! I use Linux haven't event tested my app in IE/Edge, I'm in for a shitstorm

@Hedgepig the problem is not where YOU (as dev) test your work.

But where the CLIENT use your product.

CTRL + SHIFT + F5 if you wanna feel CTRL + SHIFT + F-FIIINE...

Or incognito mode

This is the same with Java but clearing the build cache 😂

Incognito, FTW! Although I do forget...

For app developer it will be delete the app from taskmanager xD

I haven't built it for that browser (IE)

Ctrl +Shift + R

Kill your artisan serve and try again! Oddly this works a fair amount of the time

Try a different browser

I mentioned cachebusting above
For those that don't know, this involves "versioning" for JS/CSS files

For development, I set the version number to the Unix timestamp
E.G. style.css?v=XXX

There's also an option in Chrome developer tools called "Disable cache while developer tools is open". A fantastic feature!

@itsdaniel0 I'm guessing meteor (and other frameworks will do this automatically. I have never had an issue with the cache

Ironically enough

@Hedgepig I've no idea 😂
I always have that checkbox ticked

To avoid being caught by this, I installed Canary next to stable Chrome and made it so it only opens incognito and obliterates everything when it shuts down.. Just to be safe.