Node Webkit clear cache

Question

I recently discovered that c:/Users/username/AppData/Local/AppName/Cache contained over 100K cache files.

I read up a bit and saw that the gui.App.cl

Answer 1

Ran into the same issue so I created a quick solution to solve the problem temporarily until I can rely on the native gui.App.clearCache function. This removes the entire Cache directory and recreates it asynchronously.

This requires fs-extra and should work on Linux, OSX and Windows.

var customClearCache = function(){
  var dir = path.join(gui.App.dataPath, '/Cache');
  fs.remove(dir, function(err) {
    if (err) return console.error(err)
    fs.mkdirs(dir, function(err) {
      if (err) return console.error(err)
      // This is where I start my app
    });
  });
};