Eleventy-Auto-Cache-Buster

An Eleventy content-hash based cache buster, not requiring any filters or code changes aside from adding the plugin in .eleventy.js!

Turn...

<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/stylesheet.css">

Into...

<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico?v=542610a0404a5b8a2f5459c0fc5b9691">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/stylesheet.css?v=c9ca3e51cf7edc4c86c5fef68361957c">

How-to

Getting started

1. Install the plugin
   • Yarn: yarn add -D eleventy-auto-cache-buster
   • Npm: npm --save-dev eleventy-auto-cache-buster
2. Enable the plugin

   // .eleventy.js
   const eleventyAutoCacheBuster = require("eleventy-auto-cache-buster");
   
   module.exports = function (eleventyConfig) {
       eleventyConfig.addPlugin(eleventyAutoCacheBuster);
       // ...
   }

3. That's it! No further changes are required.

Changing options

// .eleventy.js
const eleventyAutoCacheBuster = require("eleventy-auto-cache-buster");

module.exports = function (eleventyConfig) {
    eleventyConfig.addPlugin(eleventyAutoCacheBuster, {
        enableLogging: true,  // Whether to enable eleventy-auto-cache-buster logging.
        globstring: "**/*.ico",  // What glob string is used to locate assets.
        hashAlgorithm: "sha1",  // What hash method to pass to the hash function. See Node.js' crypto.createHash documentation.
        hashFunction: function (content) { return "example" }  // What function to run to calculate hashes. Overrides hashAlgorithm.
    });
    // ...
}


## License
This project is licensed under the [MIT License](LICENSE).