async-memoize-last

Memoize your last most api calls.

Installation

npm install -s async-memoize-last
yarn add async-memoize-last

How Does it Work?

It memoizes and compares to your last call, if the parameters are exactly the same then it will resolve the promise with the previous response. This reduces load time (not having to wait for an api response) and data usage.

This if to be used for making asynchronous requests that, if given the same parameters in a reasonable amount of time, will return the same response. This (obviously) will mess up api calls that return different results when called with the same params at different times. Use at your own descretion.

Use Cases

Say theres an api call that you would need to perform multiple times that return the same result given the same parameters, like a distance calculation to an api that returns the distance between two points on the earth. You want to save up on costs so you don't want to perform two calls that will return the exact same result.

Api

// Basic Usage
const memoizedCall = asyncMemoize(call);

// With custom equality function
const equalityFunction = (a, b) => {
    return a - b
};
const memoizedCallWithCustomEqual = asyncMemoize(call, equalityFunction);

Options

Equality Function

    equalityFunction: (prevArgs, newArgs) => prevArgs[0] === newArgs[0] // args array

A custom equality function to compare the parameters of the function. Default is a deep equality function.

By default, this uses the deep equality function provided by fast-deep-equal. You are free to supply your own equality function to the second parameter of the asyncMemoizeLast function.