Angular and Nginx - no cache for index and assets

Question

I am running angular app on Nginx server and I was trying to add no-cache header for index.html and all files in single directory in assets: /assets/i18n/*

Here's my current config:

server {
   listen 80;
   
   sendfile on;
   
   default_type application/octet-stream;
   
   gzip              on;
   gzip_http_version 1.1;
   gzip_disable      "MSIE [1-6]\.";
   gzip_min_length   1100;
   gzip_vary         on;
   gzip_proxied      expired no-cache no-store private auth;
   gzip_types        text/plain text/css application/json application/javascript application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
   gzip_comp_level   9;
   
   client_header_buffer_size 10m;
   large_client_header_buffers 4 10m;
   
   root /usr/share/nginx/html/;
   
   location / {
      try_files ${DOLLAR}uri ${DOLLAR}uri/ /index.html =404;
   }     
   ...other setup for rest and auth

}

I was trying to achieve this by adding for assets:

location /assets/i18n {
   expires -1;
   add_header "Cache-Control" "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate, max-age=0"
}

but still I have to somehow redirect this request to angular directory because I will not get assets in such case.

For the index.html I was trying to add this in such way:

location / {
   try_files ${DOLLAR}uri ${DOLLAR}uri/ /index.html =404;
   expires -1;
   add_header "Cache-Control" "no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate, max-age=0"
}

but this will add such header for all other files which I want to avoid.