Refreshing a browser's cache while developing with gulp - reactjs

Question

My project's setup uses a combination of python's Flask on the backend which serves a fairly simple javascript React webpage using gulp.
Whether I'm debugging frontend code through Chrome or Firefox, I have to do a hard refresh multiple times before the changes make it to the browser. I see the gulp console log Finished 'transform' after N ms after each save, which leads me to believe it's the browsers fault.
I am not a front end engineer so I'm wondering what more experienced devs use. Hitting Cmd+Shift+R 5-20 times after each save is a little mind bogglingly inefficient.
current gulpfile.js:
'use strict';
var gulp = require('gulp'),
browserify = require('browserify'),
size = require('gulp-size'),
del = require('del'),
babelify = require('babelify'),
source = require('vinyl-source-stream'),
gutil = require('gulp-util');
var compiled_dir = './static/scripts/jsc';
var js_dir = './static/scripts/js';
function handle_error(err) {
gutil.log(err.message);
gutil.beep();
return process.exit(2);
}
gulp.task('transform', function () {
browserify({ entries: js_dir + '/main.js', debug: true })
.transform(babelify)
.bundle()
.on('error', handle_error)
.pipe(source('main.js'))
.pipe(gulp.dest(compiled_dir));
browserify({ entries: js_dir + '/userMgmt.js', debug: true })
.transform(babelify)
.bundle()
.on('error', handle_error)
.pipe(source('userMgmt.js'))
.pipe(gulp.dest(compiled_dir));
});
gulp.task('clean', function (cb) {
del([compiled_dir], cb);
});
gulp.task('default', ['clean'], function () {
gulp.start('transform');
gulp.watch(js_dir + "/*", ['transform']);
});

Answer 1

Method 1: Use this gulp-cache package to disable cache in development mode.
This will work:
var gulp = require('gulp');
var usemin = require('gulp-usemin');
var cache = require('gulp-cache');
gulp.task('default', function () {
return gulp.src('src/index.html')
.pipe(gulp.task('clear', function (done) {
return cache.clearAll(done);
});)
.pipe(usemin({
js: []
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('dist'));
});
If you don't know how to use it, please update your question with gulp config file, I will configure you that.
Method 2: Configure your watcher.
$ npm install browser-sync --save-dev
var browserSync = require('browser-sync').create();
gulp.watch(['./**/*.{scss,css,html,py,js}'], ['clearCache', browserSync.reload]);
gulp.task('clearCache', function (done) {
return cache.clearAll(done);
});