p-memoize

What is p-memoize?

The p-memoize package is a promise-memoization library for JavaScript. It allows you to memoize the results of asynchronous functions, which can help improve performance by caching the results of expensive function calls and returning the cached result when the same inputs occur again.

What are p-memoize's main functionalities?

Basic Memoization

This feature allows you to memoize an asynchronous function. The first call to the function with a specific input will take the usual time, but subsequent calls with the same input will return the cached result immediately.

const pMemoize = require('p-memoize');

const expensiveFunction = async (input) => {
  // Simulate an expensive operation
  return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(() => resolve(input * 2), 1000));
};

const memoizedFunction = pMemoize(expensiveFunction);

(async () => {
  console.log(await memoizedFunction(2)); // Waits 1 second, logs 4
  console.log(await memoizedFunction(2)); // Logs 4 immediately
})();

Custom Cache

This feature allows you to use a custom cache implementation. In this example, QuickLRU is used as the cache, which provides a least-recently-used (LRU) cache mechanism.

const pMemoize = require('p-memoize');
const QuickLRU = require('quick-lru');

const expensiveFunction = async (input) => {
  // Simulate an expensive operation
  return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(() => resolve(input * 2), 1000));
};

const cache = new QuickLRU({ maxSize: 1000 });
const memoizedFunction = pMemoize(expensiveFunction, { cache });

(async () => {
  console.log(await memoizedFunction(2)); // Waits 1 second, logs 4
  console.log(await memoizedFunction(2)); // Logs 4 immediately
})();

Cache Key Customization

This feature allows you to customize the cache key. By default, the cache key is generated based on the function arguments, but you can provide a custom function to generate the cache key.

const pMemoize = require('p-memoize');

const expensiveFunction = async (input) => {
  // Simulate an expensive operation
  return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(() => resolve(input * 2), 1000));
};

const memoizedFunction = pMemoize(expensiveFunction, {
  cacheKey: ([input]) => `key-${input}`
});

(async () => {
  console.log(await memoizedFunction(2)); // Waits 1 second, logs 4
  console.log(await memoizedFunction(2)); // Logs 4 immediately
})();

Other packages similar to p-memoize

memoizee

memoizee is a general-purpose memoization library for JavaScript. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous functions, and offers a wide range of configuration options, including custom cache size, expiration, and more. Compared to p-memoize, memoizee is more feature-rich but also more complex to configure.

lru-cache

lru-cache is a simple and efficient LRU (Least Recently Used) cache library for JavaScript. While it does not provide memoization out of the box, it can be used in conjunction with custom memoization logic to achieve similar results. It is more focused on providing a robust caching mechanism rather than memoization specifically.

moize

moize is a high-performance memoization library for JavaScript that supports both synchronous and asynchronous functions. It offers a variety of configuration options, including custom cache keys, expiration, and more. moize is similar to p-memoize in terms of functionality but provides more advanced features and optimizations.

README

p-memoize

Memoize promise-returning & async functions

Useful for speeding up consecutive function calls by caching the result of calls with identical input.

By default, only the memoized function's first argument is considered via strict equality comparison. If you need to cache multiple arguments or cache objects by value, have a look at alternative caching strategies below.

This package is similar to mem but with async-specific enhancements; in particular, it allows for asynchronous caches and does not cache rejected promises.

Install

npm install p-memoize

Usage

import pMemoize from 'p-memoize';
import got from 'got';

const memoizedGot = pMemoize(got);

await memoizedGot('https://sindresorhus.com');

// This call is cached
await memoizedGot('https://sindresorhus.com');

Caching strategy

Similar to the caching strategy for mem with the following exceptions:

• Promises returned from a memoized function are locally cached until resolving, when their value is added to cache. Special properties assigned to a returned promise will not be kept after resolution and every promise may need to resolve with a serializable object if caching results in a database.
• .get(), .has() and .set() methods on cache can run asynchronously by returning a promise.
• Instead of .set() being provided an object with the properties value and maxAge, it will only be provided value as the first argument. If you want to implement time-based expiry, consider doing so in cache.

API

pMemoize(fn, options?)

Returns a memoized version of the given function.

fn

Type: Function

Promise-returning or async function to be memoized.

options

Type: object

cacheKey

Type: Function
Default: arguments_ => arguments_[0]
Example: arguments_ => JSON.stringify(arguments_)

Determines the cache key for storing the result based on the function arguments. By default, only the first argument is considered.

A cacheKey function can return any type supported by Map (or whatever structure you use in the cache option).

See the caching strategy section for more information.

cache

Type: object | false
Default: new Map()

Use a different cache storage. Must implement the following methods: .has(key), .get(key), .set(key, value), .delete(key), and optionally .clear(). You could for example use a WeakMap instead or quick-lru for a LRU cache. To disable caching so that only concurrent executions resolve with the same value, pass false.

See the caching strategy section in the mem package for more information.

pMemoizeDecorator(options)

Returns a decorator to memoize class methods or static class methods.

Notes:

• Only class methods and getters/setters can be memoized, not regular functions (they aren't part of the proposal);
• Only TypeScript’s decorators are supported, not Babel’s, which use a different version of the proposal;
• Being an experimental feature, they need to be enabled with --experimentalDecorators; follow TypeScript’s docs.

options

Type: object

Same as options for pMemoize().

import {pMemoizeDecorator} from 'p-memoize';

class Example {
	index = 0

	@pMemoizeDecorator()
	async counter() {
		return ++this.index;
	}
}

class ExampleWithOptions {
	index = 0

	@pMemoizeDecorator()
	async counter() {
		return ++this.index;
	}
}

pMemoizeClear(memoized)

Clear all cached data of a memoized function.

It will throw when given a non-memoized function.

Tips

Time-based cache expiration

import pMemoize from 'p-memoize';
import ExpiryMap from 'expiry-map';
import got from 'got';

const cache = new ExpiryMap(10000); // Cached values expire after 10 seconds

const memoizedGot = pMemoize(got, {cache});

Caching promise rejections

import pMemoize from 'p-memoize';
import pReflect from 'p-reflect';

const memoizedGot = pMemoize(async (url, options) => pReflect(got(url, options)));

await memoizedGot('https://example.com');
// {isFulfilled: true, isRejected: false, value: '...'}

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