Disable render cache for a node type

Question

Is there a way to disable the render cache, which caches all the nodes by default, for a particular content type X.

I know we can disable the render cache site wide by commenting out

$settings['cache']['bins']['render'] = ‘cache.backend.null’;

in settings.local.php. But this is not a ideal approach for me as I need to disable the render cache only for a particular node type.

Also, I need to disable the cache for both Authenticated and Anonymous users for the content type X.

Any pointers on the same would be very much appreciated.

Answer 1

Like you said disabling the render cache site wide is not a good idea. If you need this for one content type you can do this in a view alter hook.

If you want to disable caching for authenticated and anonymous users you have to set cache max-age = 0 and trigger the kill switch for the internal page cache:

function MYMODULE_node_view_alter(array &$build, Drupal\Core\Entity\EntityInterface $entity, \Drupal\Core\Entity\Display\EntityViewDisplayInterface $display) {
  if ($entity->bundle() == 'article') {
    $build['#cache']['max-age'] = 0;
    \Drupal::service('page_cache_kill_switch')->trigger();
  }
}

The same can be implemented in a theme in a preprocess hook.