A simple LRU for NodeJS
This library implements an LRU Cache. It has only three methods: get()
, set()
, and has()
and possesses the following traits:
- simplicity
- correctness
- uses Map rather than
Object
.
The reason I wrote it is that, at the time of this writing, I could not find a library that would satisfy all three requirements above.
// Import the class
const MereLRU = require('mere-lru');
// Insert stuff
const cache = new MereLRU(100);
cache.set('key', 'value');
const v = cache.get('key'); // -> 'value'
// Insert more elements
for (let i = 0; i < 100; ++i)
cache.set('key' + i, 'foo');
// The first one is now gone:
cache.has('key'); // -> false
A good collection of related modules is here: https://github.com/dominictarr/bench-lru
(But take the benchmark results on that page with a barrel of salt.)