Disable Drupal 8 Caching During Development

We know Drupal 8 has many levels of caching:

• Render caching
• Dynamic page caching
• Twig template caching

When you are developing a module or a theme it is better to disable cache on the development stage rather than clearing cache for every change being made.

1. Copy and rename the sites/example.settings.local.php file as sites/default/settings.local.php.

   

2. In your settings.local.php file, locate the section that starts with "Disable the render cache".

   

3. Uncomment the $settings variable for that section:
   $settings['cache']['bins']['render'] = 'cache.backend.null';

Dynamic page caching:

Dynamic page caching is when Drupal takes the entire rendered output of a page and stores it in the database (or another cache store; defaults to the database). Pages will only be cached for anonymous traffic and for users that don't have session data, like items in a shopping cart.

1. In your settings.local.php file, locate the section that starts with "Disable Dynamic Page Cache".
    

   
2. Uncomment the $settings variable for that section:
   $settings['cache']['bins']['dynamic_page_cache'] = 'cache.backend.null';
3. Open settings.php file in sites/default directory and , locate the section that starts with "settings.local.php".

4. Uncomment the section:

   if (file_exists($app_root . '/' . $site_path . '/settings.local.php')) {

    include $app_root . '/' . $site_path . '/settings.local.php';

   }

5. open development.services.yml in the sites folder and add the following lines (to disable twig cache)

   parameters:

    twig.config:

      debug: true

      auto_reload: true

      cache: false

6. Your final development.services.yml should look as follows:

    

   

7. After the above steps, you need to rebuild the Drupal cache.

   1 - drush cache-rebuild

   2 - drush cr

8. Now After changes done, Drupal's caching system is effectively turned off.