route-cache

Route-Cache

Blazing fast :bullettrain_side: Express middleware for route caching with a given TTL (in seconds)

Why?

• makes hard-working routes super-fast, under heavy-load, see Load Tests
• defend against 'thundering herd'
• supports various content-types
• support for redirects
• allows for conditional caching (per request)
• works with gzip compression

Install

npm install route-cache

Test

npm test

How to use

var routeCache = require('route-cache');

// cache route for 20 seconds
app.get('/index', routeCache.cacheSeconds(20), function(req, res){
  // do your dirty work here...
  console.log('you will only see this every 20 seconds.');
  res.send('this response will be cached');
});

By default req.originalUrl is used as the cache key so every URL is cached separately.

You can set a custom key by passing a second argument to cacheSeconds.

routeCache.cacheSeconds(20, 'my-custom-cache-key')

You can set a dynamic key from the req and res objects by passing a function.

// Cache authenticated and unauthenticated responses separately
routeCache.cacheSeconds(20, function(req, res) {
  return req.originalUrl + '|' + res.locals.signedIn
})

If you return false the response will not be cached.

// Only cache unauthenticated responses
routeCache.cacheSeconds(20, function(req, res) {
  if (res.locals.signedIn) { return false }

  return req.originalUrl
})

Delete a cached route

routeCache.removeCache('/index');

Use a distributed cache

const Redis = require('ioredis')
const IoRedisStore = require('route-cache/ioRedisStore')


const redisClient = new Redis(6379, '127.0.0.1'))
const cacheStore = new IoRedisStore(redisClient)
routeCache.config({cacheStore})

Future plans / todos

• client-side Cache-Control

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Copyright (c) 2014 Brad Oyler

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