If browser caching is a mess in your head, the article below will help you sort it out:

➡️ https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/increasing-application-performance-with-http-cache-headers

My take:

The article above covers the main caching scenarios, which is enough for 99% of tasks. For the remaining 1%, you can look up the description of all Cache-Control header properties (here) or search for your specific case.

P.S. If your project uses NestJS, you can experiment with CacheInterceptor, as shown here