A very common use case is to use Experience Fragments/XF’s for Header and footer in editable template. In fact this is how the OOTB AEM archetype implements header and footer. However you would very soon notice issues with the caching of XF’s and would need to device a caching strategy. Lets discuss the issues and how to resolve them.
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A common issue with Experience fragment(XF) is cache invalidation of pages referencing the XF. When a Experience fragment(XF) is modified and published, pages which reference the XF are not updated and still shows old XF content. This happens because the XF content/html is cached as part of each page instead of being referenced from a shared location.
Page needs to be explicitly activated/invalidated to view the updated content of the XF. This can be quite tedious and unpractical at times for the authors. There are multiple ways to tackle this problem.