Provides a directory where the OS wants you to store cached files.
npm install --save cachedir
const cachedir = require('cachedir')
console.log(cachedir('myapp'))
// e.g.
//=> '/Users/linus/Library/Caches/myapp'
//=> '/home/linus/.cache/myapp'
//=> 'C:\Users\linus\AppData\Local\myapp\Cache'
cachedir(id)id (string, required)stringReturn path to an appropriate place to store cache files.
FAQs
Provides a directory where the OS wants you to store cached files.
The npm package cachedir receives a total of 3,630,949 weekly downloads. As such, cachedir popularity was classified as popular.
We found that cachedir demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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