Is it possible to disable auto-refresh and display "There is a new version - click here to refresh" message instead when a new version of my app is deployed?

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Currently, whenever I deploy, the app automatically reloads which isn’t very user friendly, especially if the user is in the middle of adding some content when the refresh occurs.

Ideally, I’d like to display a “New Version - click here to refresh” message like some other popular web-apps do, but failing that, disabling auto-refresh would suffice. I’ve seen a few snippets on here in the past showing how to disable auto-refresh, but they sounded like workarounds rather than proper solutions - please correct me if I’m wrong.

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There are a few atmosphere packages for this functionality. This is a search for ‘reload’, so there’s some “noise”:

https://atmospherejs.com/?q=reload

This may be worth looking at - it’s recent and well documented (I haven’t tried it): https://atmospherejs.com/jamielob/reloader

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Thanks for the links.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t get jamielob:reloader to work. I have settled for disabling client-side hot refreshes for now using the following client-side code:

Meteor.startup(() => {
    Meteor._reload.onMigrate(() => [false]); 
});

Not ideal, but it works and is good enough for now.