cache-loader

The cache-loader allow to Caches the result of following loaders on disk (default) or in the database.

Getting Started

To begin, you'll need to install cache-loader:

npm install --save-dev cache-loader

Add this loader in front of other (expensive) loaders to cache the result on disk.

webpack.config.js

module.exports = {
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.ext$/,
        use: ['cache-loader', ...loaders],
        include: path.resolve('src'),
      },
    ],
  },
};

⚠️ Note that there is an overhead for saving the reading and saving the cache file, so only use this loader to cache expensive loaders.

Options

| Name | Type | n Default | Description | | :-------------------: | :----------------------------------------------: | :-----------------------------------------------------: | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | cacheAddedFiles | {Boolean} | false | Allow to caches the added files. By default it's not cached. | | cacheContext | {String} | undefined | Allows you to override the default cache context in order to generate the cache relatively to a path. By default it will use absolute paths | | cacheKey | {Function(options, request) -> {String}} | undefined | Allows you to override default cache key generator | | cacheDirectory | {String} | findCacheDir({ name: 'cache-loader' }) or os.tmpdir() | Provide a cache directory where cache items should be stored (used for default read/write implementation) | | cacheIdentifier | {String} | cache-loader:{version} {process.env.NODE_ENV} | Provide an invalidation identifier which is used to generate the hashes. You can use it for extra dependencies of loaders (used for default read/write implementation) | | compare | {Function(stats, dep) -> {Boolean}} | undefined | Allows you to override default comparison function between the cached dependency and the one is being read. Return true to use the cached resource | | precision | {Number} | 0 | Round mtime by this number of milliseconds both for stats and dep before passing those params to the comparing function | | read | {Function(cacheKey, callback) -> {void}} | undefined | Allows you to override default read cache data from file | | readOnly | {Boolean} | false | Allows you to override default value and make the cache read only (useful for some environments where you don't want the cache to be updated, only read from it) | | write | {Function(cacheKey, data, callback) -> {void}} | undefined | Allows you to override default write cache data to file (e.g. Redis, memcached) |

Examples

Basic

webpack.config.js

module.exports = {
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.js$/,
        use: ['cache-loader', 'babel-loader'],
        include: path.resolve('src'),
      },
    ],
  },
};

Database Integration

webpack.config.js

// Or different database client - memcached, mongodb, ...
const redis = require('redis');
const crypto = require('crypto');

// ...
// connect to client
// ...

const BUILD_CACHE_TIMEOUT = 24 * 3600; // 1 day

function digest(str) {
  return crypto.createHash('md5').update(str).digest('hex');
}

// Generate own cache key
function cacheKey(options, request) {
  return `build:cache:${digest(request)}`;
}

// Read data from database and parse them
function read(key, callback) {
  client.get(key, (err, result) => {
    if (err) {
      return callback(err);
    }

    if (!result) {
      return callback(new Error(`Key ${key} not found`));
    }

    try {
      let data = JSON.parse(result);
      callback(null, data);
    } catch (e) {
      callback(e);
    }
  });
}

// Write data to database under cacheKey
function write(key, data, callback) {
  client.set(key, JSON.stringify(data), 'EX', BUILD_CACHE_TIMEOUT, callback);
}

module.exports = {
  module: {
    rules: [
      {
        test: /\.js$/,
        use: [
          {
            loader: 'cache-loader',
            options: {
              cacheKey,
              read,
              write,
            },
          },
          'babel-loader',
        ],
        include: path.resolve('src'),
      },
    ],
  },
};

Contributing

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CONTRIBUTING

License

MIT