Breaking and busting
At some point in the development of a project, a developer will inevitably be faced with an obscure error, which is raised from the depths of Ext JS when the application loads. This raises an issue with the way Ext JS sets up its caching mechanism. For example, a normal (if slightly naïve) request for a JavaScript file might look like this:
GET: /assets/javascripts/jquery.min.js
Out of the box, Ext.Loader will pull scripts like this:
GET: /ext/build/ext-all-rtl-debug.js?_dc=1420215165267
It appends a timestamp query variable to the request. This is designed to ensure that we always get the latest version of the script by bypassing browser caching mechanisms.
This can be very useful; however in our situation, it means that any breakpoints ...
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