BrowserView doesn't get reloaded

[Awendel]

When having a BrowserView nested inside BrowserWindow and a renderer file changes for the BrowserView, the change is detected in the console, but the BrowserView doesn't get refreshed, so one is currently forced to manually restart.

[catdad]

Hmm, I am not seeing that in my apps that use BrowserView. Are you able to provide a small example application that reproduces this issue?

[Awendel]

Sorry, was very busy and didn't have time to create a test. I did go through your code though, found & fixed the issue.

the affected script is hook.js

The current code

function reload() {
  const windows = electron.BrowserWindow.getAllWindows()> 
  if (windows && windows.length) {
    for (const win of windows) {
      win.webContents.reloadIgnoringCache()
    }
  }
}

My Code that actually reloads all BrowserViews associated with the Window:

function reload() {
  const windows = electron.BrowserWindow.getAllWindows();

  if (windows && windows.length) {
    for (const win of windows) {
      win.webContents.reloadIgnoringCache()  
   
      const views = win.getBrowserViews()
      views.forEach(function(view){
        view.webContents.reloadIgnoringCache()
      })

    }
  }
}

Could just be added as a quick Pull request to fix it upstream, sadly will have to get back right away to work and won't be able to do it myself, but the fix is there.