# Real-time updates, triggered from Airtable

> Edit a record, press a button, and your published site shows it. No deploy, no dashboard.

Refresh exactly what changed on your live site with a button or automation inside Airtable itself.

Cached sites are fast but go stale; uncached sites are fresh but slow and burn through Airtable's
rate limits. Every Airtable-backed site picks its poison — or it used to.

VibeKit caches everything at the edge **and** gives the refresh switch to the people actually
editing the data — inside Airtable, where they already work. Nobody has to open a dashboard, ping
a developer, or wait for a redeploy.

## Three ways to refresh, all from Airtable

- **A button on the record.** Drop a one-line formula into a Button field. Editors click it after
  changing a row and that record refreshes on the live site straight away — including for anyone
  looking at it right now.
- **A button on the interface.** Put a refresh URL behind a button in an Airtable interface to
  refresh a whole view (a list or grid) in one press — it's fresh the next time anyone loads it.
- **No button at all.** If records change by import, sync, or another automation, paste VibeKit's
  script into an Airtable Automation. Every change then clears its own record — hands-free.

The admin's **Cache control** tab lists every view and table your app reads and hands you the
right snippet for each, ready to paste.

## Precise, not scorched-earth

A record refresh touches that record. A view refresh touches that view. Nothing else is thrown
away, so the rest of your site keeps serving instantly from cache. For lists that truly cannot
wait — an event flipping to sold out — mark them high urgency and changes are pushed into the
page as they happen (see [live data](/products/vibekit/features/live-data)).

## Protected from runaway automations

If an automation starts firing refreshes too fast, VibeKit eases it off progressively and then
fails the automation run so Airtable flags exactly which one misbehaved — your site stays up, and
you find out without digging (see [flood protection](/products/vibekit/features/flood-protection)).

## Questions this page answers

- how do i refresh my website when airtable data changes
- airtable button to update website
- airtable cache invalidation
- why is my website showing old airtable data
- sync airtable changes to live site

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