Other action when version changes (instead of page refresh)

I’m working on a big app with Inertia. When the version of the js files change, I don’t want a hard refresh, as I find it rather disturbing to the user, and it could lead to loss of data. I wish there was a way to intercept when the version changes so I can do something else instead, for example show a notification like this:

Possible implementation:

import { Inertia } from '@inertiajs/inertia'

Inertia.onVersionChange(function () {
    // Show notification that new version is available
    return false
})

The return false could indicate that Inertia doesn’t have to do a hard refresh, but carry on as if there was no version change.

[reinink]

Haha, yup, totally! Guilty! ✋

[klaasgeldof]

Wow, great! Sometimes we are looking too far and there are much simpler solutions 😅 Thank you!