Question about using the CDN copy on jsDelivr about emojione HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi ping,

We debated this for some time and felt that non-versioning for the image files was the best option. I spoke with jsdelivr and confirmed that your issue with exvm-sg expiration shouldn't happen again.

When we do emoji image updates, jsdelivr purges their cache for those specific assets. If the browser does a modified check then the client will receive the new and updated emoji. Obviously if the browser doesn't do that check then they may receive an outdated file. We went with a max-age of 1 month for the images, which we felt was fair. After all it's just a suggestion to the browsers, doesn't mean they will follow it.

Also, jsdelivr prefers to not do versions on large file sets like this that often have few updates from version to version. It creates a lot of overhead in the cloning/forking process and they want to keep their repo as lightweight as possible.

I know this probably isn't the answer you wanted, but I hope you understand our position.

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@kevinranks
I understand your points. But to clarify, I was not requesting that the CDN kept actual distinct versioned copies of the images, but to support a versioned "path" to the images that all point to the same 1 copy for cache-busting purposes.

Devs using sprites can already cache-bust by appending a pseudo version parameter to the css/sprite uri. Example:

/* Sprite CSS link */
<link href="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/emojione/assets/sprites/emojione.sprites.css?v=1.2.2" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

/* Sprite CSS override */
[class*=emojione-] { background-image:url("//cdn.jsdelivr.net/emojione/assets/sprites/emojione.sprites.png?v=1.2.2") !important; }

But I can't use the same method for setting emojione.imagePathPNG / emojione.imagePathSVG in javascript. Perhaps, the javascript lib can support the option of appending a user-defined parameter for cache-busting?

For example emojione.cacheBustParam = 'v=1.2.2'; and when that param is defined, the path to the emoji image becomes //cdn.jsdelivr.net/emojione/assets/png/1F479.png?v=1.2.2

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Sorry for the confusion there. I like your idea about the cache busting parameter in the libraries. Let me talk to my team and see what we can do! 😄

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