cachely

cachely

A tiny wrapper that sits around your request function that caches its data for a specified duration, provides updates as requested rather than polling each interval

Install

NPM

• Install: npm install --save cachely
• Use: require('cachely')

Browserify

• Install: npm install --save cachely
• Use: require('cachely')
• CDN URL: //wzrd.in/bundle/cachely@1.0.1

Ender

• Install: ender add cachely
• Use: require('cachely')

Usage

let fetches = 0
const cachely = require('cachely').create({
	// The method that will fetch the data
	// It receives one argument which is a completion callback that accepts two arguments (err and data)
	method: function (next) {
		// in this case, after a one second delay, return the number of fetches that we have done
		setTimeout(function () {
			next(null, ++fetches)  // err, data
		}, 1000)
	},

	// An optional duration in milliseconds that our cache of the data will be valid for
	// When expired, on the next request of the data, we will use the method to get the latest data
	// Defaults to one day
	duration: 2000,  // in this example we set it to two seconds

	// An optional function that receives debugging log messages
	// Defaults to nothing
	log: console.log
})

// do an initial fetch of the data
cachely.request(function (err, data) {
	console.log('after one second as specified in our method, the result data should still be 1:', data, err)
})

// do a subsequent fetch of the data that will be from the cache
cachely.request(function (err, data) {
	console.log('after a tiny delay this will be from cache, the result data should still be 1:', data, err)
})

// wait for the cache to invalidate itself
setTimeout(function () {
	// do an second fetch of the data
	cachely.request(function (err, data) {
		console.log('after one second as specified in our method, the result data should be 2, as it was our second fetch:', data, err)
	})

	// do a subsequent fetch of the data that will be from the cache
	cachely.request(function (err, data) {
		console.log('after a tiny delay this will be from cache, the result data should still be 2:', data, err)
	})

	// peform a manual invalidation
	cachely.invalidate()

	// do a third fetch of the data
	cachely.request(function (err, data) {
		console.log('after one second as specified in our method, the result data should be 3, as it was our third fetch:', data, err)
	})

	// do a subsequent fetch of the data that will be from the cache
	cachely.request(function (err, data) {
		console.log('after a tiny delay this will be from cache, the result data should still be 3:', data, err)
	})
}, 3000)

History

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Contribute

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Backers

Maintainers

These amazing people are maintaining this project:

• Benjamin Lupton — view contributions

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Contributors

These amazing people have contributed code to this project:

• Benjamin Lupton — view contributions

Discover how you can contribute by heading on over to the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

License

Unless stated otherwise all works are:

• Copyright © 2015+ Bevry Pty Ltd

and licensed under:

• MIT License

Changelog

v1.0.1 2015 December 10

• Updated internal conventions