[ChemicalWarfare]

Sounds like a workable solution.

That said, the way I would've architected this is I'd include a build version # into the distro and provided a checkVersion backend service that would return the current build version # for the client side logic to compare it's build # to.

And if you want to go an extra mile maybe a shouldRefresh service that would only return "true" if the changes that were made require a refresh on the client side.

[hankeypancake]

That crossed my mind as well. Though, that would require both frontend and backend code. This takes around 20-40 lines of javascript and works exactly as intended, and doesn't require maintenance in two or more different places