lru-pcache

An LRU cache for promises. Developer friendly

Features

Promisification: Async ready to easily change to a memcached/redis implementation
Improved get method, to make more expressive usage of the pattern "if not found in the cache, go get it, store in the cache, and return the value"
Funnel values: Promises are stored and returned, so if the value for a key is being obtained while another get is requested, the promise of the value is returned so only one request for value is done
Compatible with non-promises methods

100% coverage

Basic Usage

npm install lru-pcache

const { Cache } = require('lru-pcache');

const cache = new Cache({ // see https://github.com/isaacs/node-lru-cache#options for options
  max: 50, // # of items
  maxAge: 10 * 60 * 1000, // expiration in ms (10 min)
});

// The old method without cache
const getCarUncached = async (name) => {
  const { data } = await axios.get(`https://example.com/cars/${name}`);
  return data;
});

// With cache: easy addinng
const getCar = async (name) => cache.get(name, async () => {
  const { data } = await axios.get(`https://example.com/cars/${name}`);
  return data;
});

await volvo = await getCar('Volvo');
await cache.del('Volvo'); // delete from cache
await cache.reset(); // clear cache
await cache.prune(); // remove expired items from cache

Development setup

To clone the repository use the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/jmendiara/lru-pcache && cd lru-pcache

Use VSCode development containers, directly docker-compose

# Shell interactive session inside a container
docker-compose run app bash

Available Scripts

clean - remove coverage data, Jest cache and transpiled files,
build - transpile TypeScript to ES6,
watch - interactive watch mode to automatically transpile source files,
lint - lint source files and tests,
test - run tests,
test:watch - interactive watch mode to automatically re-run tests
format - format the code

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.