NestJS Cache

Sometimes, the data retrieval or computed tasks performed by your applications can be heavy, CPU intensive or time taking. In those cases, you may want to save it in a fast-read store so that you don't need to run the computation again and again. When the data is cached, it can be retrieved quickly on subsequent requests for the same data.

This package provides a multi-store cache provider for your NestJS application.

Supported Queues

• Redis
• Memcache (Coming Soon)
• RocksDB (Coming Soon)
• KeyDB (Coming Soon)

Few Hightlights

• ✅ Easy to setup and configure
• ✅ Handle multiple stores with ease
• ✅ Expressive API methods

Installation

# npm
npm i @squareboat/nest-cache

# yarn
yarn add @squareboat/nest-cache

For NestJS v6.7.x, please do

# npm
npm i @squareboat/nest-cache^0.0.1

# yarn
yarn add @squareboat/nest-cache^0.0.1

Configuration

Now that the installation is done, you need to configure the package as mentioned below.

Synchronous Registration

You can register the cache module like below

// src/app.module.ts
import { Module } from "@nestjs/common";
import { CacheModule } from "@libs/cache";

@Module({
  imports: [
    CacheModule.register({
      default: "redis",
      stores: {
        redis: {
          driver: "redis",
          host: process.env.REDIS_HOST,
          password: process.env.REDIS_PASSWORD,
          port: process.env.REDIS_PORT || 6379,
          database: process.env.REDIS_DB || 0,
          prefix: "nestjs_boilerplate",
        },
      },
    }),
  ],
  controllers: [],
  providers: [],
})
export class AppModule {}

Asynchronous Registration (Recommended)

You need to create a file, config/cache.ts

// config/cache.ts

import { registerAs } from "@nestjs/config";
import { basePath } from "@libs/core";
import { CacheOptions } from "@libs/cache";

export default registerAs(
  "cache",
  () =>
    ({
      default: "redis",
      stores: {
        redis: {
          driver: "redis",
          host: process.env.REDIS_HOST || "127.0.0.1",
          password: process.env.REDIS_PASSWORD || undefined,
          port: process.env.REDIS_PORT || 6379,
          database: process.env.REDIS_DB || 0,
          prefix: "nestjs_boilerplate",
        },
      },
    } as CacheOptions)
);

// src/app.module.ts
import { Module } from "@nestjs/common";
import { ConfigModule, ConfigService } from "@nestjs/config";
import config from "@config/index";
import { CacheModule } from "@libs/cache";

@Module({
  imports: [
    ConfigModule.forRoot({
      isGlobal: true,
      expandVariables: true,
      load: config,
    }),
    CacheModule.registerAsync({
      isGlobal: true,
      imports: [ConfigModule],
      useFactory: (config: ConfigService) => config.get("cache"),
      inject: [ConfigService],
    }),
  ],
  controllers: [],
  providers: [],
})
export class AppModule {}

Usage

To access the store, you can use the CacheStore method or Cache class.

// method
import { CacheStore } from "@squareboat/nest-cache";
const store = CacheStore("redis");

// class
import { Cache } from "@squareboat/nest-cache";
const store = Cache.store("redis");

If no store name is passed, then default store is returned.

Now, you can set data in the store using .set() method.

// saved forever in the store
await CacheStore().set("reset_password_token", "abcd123456");

// saved for 2 mins or 120 seconds in the store
await CacheStore().set("reset_password_token", "abcdef12345678", 120);

To fetch the data from store, you can use .get() method.

await CacheStore().set("reset_password_token");
// will return 'abcd123456'

To check if key exists in the store, you can use .has() method

await CacheStore().has("reset_password_token");
// will return `true` if found, else `false`

To remove a key from the store, use .forget() method

await CacheStore().forget("reset_password_token");

There will be cases where you may want to process something and then save it to store.

Thankfully, this package provides two methods, .remember() and .rememberForever() method which you can use to handle this case automatically.

const cb = () => {
  return "some_random_generated_token";
};

await CacheStore().rememberForever("reset_password_token", cb);

await CacheStore().remember("reset_password_token", cb, 120);

Notice the callback cb passed to the rememberForever method, it will be processed and the value returned by the callback will be serialized and saved to the store automatically.

The only difference between the rememberForever and remember method is the expiry time (3rd argument) of the key in the store.

Extras

There might be instances where you would want to generate unique keys with multiple values, and to maintain a uniformity and consistency, this package comes with a genKey method.

const key = Cache.genKey({ type: "reset_password_token", userId: 1234 });
console.log(key); // type[reset_password_token],userId[1234]

genKey method automatically sorts the object's key in lexical order.

Contributing

To know about contributing to this package, read the guidelines here

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