I followed the Magento dev docs per below:
If you add a new .html template, and then edit it, the changes will
not apply until you do the following: delete all files in the
pub/static/frontend and var/view_preprocessing directories, then
reload the pages. You can delete the files manually or run the grunt
clean: command in CLI. For details about using Grunt in
Magento see Installing and configuring Grunt.
However now in developer mode set via htaccess I get Internal Server Error 500 across site and admin urls. Is that a caching issue if its looking for the cleared files to render?
Best Answer
in developer mode the files are automatically generated when requested and not found. So this should not be a Problem.
When facing a 500 error the first thing you should do is search for your webserver error log.
When running on apache it can mostly be found in one of these 2 locations: