Office JavaScript Web Plugin not updating

Question

I am quite new to developing plugins for Office. I am hitting a brick wall and would really appreciate some help:

When I side-load my plugin, the plugin loads for the first time, but then it is stuck and any changes I make don't register, and Word doesn't load the new updates from the updated functions.js
If I delete (move) the manifest file, the plugin still appears in Word; where is this stored, and how can I get rid of it?
When I put debug flags in my code to do console.log ... where does this actually output to ? My functions are all set to buttons on the toolbar and I don't use the home.html to open a taskpane.

See if this article helps: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/testing/… — Rick Kirkham
– Rick Kirkham, Commented Nov 25, 2019 at 18:18
Did you solve this problem? I am running into the same situation while working on an Outlook plugin — Christiaan Kreeftmeijer
– Christiaan Kreeftmeijer, Commented Jun 17, 2020 at 20:31

Developer · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-19 06:22:50Z

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The add-in is cached by Office. To remove the cached data delete the content of the folder %localappdata%\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Wef

If you have npx installed you can remove add-ins via npx office-toolbox remove install npx using npm install -g npx

answered Dec 19, 2019 at 6:22

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