I'm trying to implement some cache busting on my angular application in a way that it will still allow caching but break it anytime we push new code to production. My setup so far involves using grunt cache-breaker https://www.npmjs.org/package/grunt-cache-breaker to dig through my concatenated angular app.js file and append query params to any string ending in a .html file extension. I also do this for any template files I have that are using an ng-include. One complication this creates is that now I need to first copy my template files to a dist/ directory so I can safely .gitignore the cache-busted versions and not have to commit all of my templates everytime the cache is busted (and create conflicts).

My question is not how to do this but more of a sanity check as to if this is a practical way of avoiding template caching on new code? I have seen examples of disabling template caching in angular but it seems like it is something I would want to use in between code pushes when files are not changing.

How do other navigate this issue?