rest-api-kit

Rest Api Kit

Welcome to rest-api-kit – your go-to solution for gaining precise control over caching in API requests within your React and React Native applications. Tired of feeling restricted by caching mechanisms that lack flexibility and clarity? Look no further. With rest-api-kit, developers like you can finally take charge of caching with ease. Say goodbye to complex configurations and unreliable results. Our package empowers you to determine exactly when cache entries are created, updated, or deleted, based on parameters you define. Whether you're building a web application with React or a mobile app with React Native, rest-api-kit simplifies caching implementation without compromising on effectiveness. Take control of your cache today with rest-api-kit

installation

rest-api-kit is available for use as a package on npm: npm i rest-api-kit or yarn: yarn add rest-api-kit

What's in it?

Rest API kit comes with the following hooks: "useRest": creates a base for apis. This hook returns a trigger function and a state object. Each works as follows:

If you use the saveToCache option when using a trigger function, then we create a cache entry based entirely on the url passed in from the same trigger. Whether that cache entry is new is dependent on:

1. If there is a cache with the same url as its key already, we then check if the preferCacheValue is set to true. If it is, we supply you the value in the cache and not createa new entry
2. If there is no cache with the same url as its key already, we make the request and create a new cache entry with the url. At this point even if preferCacheValue is set to true, it doesn't matter because we are only just creating the cache entry.