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cache-digest-immutable

v1.0.1

Published

Service Worker to create Cache Digest header for Immutable Responses

Downloads

3

Readme

📑 Cache Digest Immutable

Uses a service worker's fetch event and Cache API to set the cache-digest header. Webservers use this digest to check which files the client aleady has cached. This avoids server-pushing redundant data, providing atomic cache invalidation when used in combination with filename revving (aka cache busting).

As an explicit opt-in, to avoid overly aggressive caching, this implementation only includes, in the digest, responses that have the cache-control: immutable extension set.

Usage

if ('serviceWorker' in navigator) {
  addEventListener('load', function () {
    navigator.serviceWorker.register('cache-digest-immutable.js')
  }, {once: true})
}

Note: This waits until everything else on the page has loaded. This is fine since the service worker only receives fetch events on future page loads.

Server Support

Specifications

Significant Decisions

  • Written in ES2015+ which works fine as of Chrome 56 (Canary version at the time of starting this implementation).
  • Uses importScripts(...) for native module loading within Service Workers. Not meant to be compatible with alternatives like CommonJS, ES2015 Modules (export/import), etc.
  • Only caches if cache-control: immutable extension is set. This makes it opt-in for server configurations and avoids overly aggressive caching. Also minimises the cache digest size to only contain assets that will be cached long-term, as opposed to short-term ephemeral resources that require revalidation.
  • Respects all caching directives by fully parsing the date/expires/cache-control headers (incl max-age=N/no-store/no-cache/must-revalidate).
  • Manages cache by purging stale responses.
  • Rewritten the URL value hashing code to use the browser's asynchronous SubtleCrypto API's SHA256 implementation.
  • Rewritten the digest algo to closely follow the spec. Still uses the same (slightly tweaked) BitCoder implementation of Golomb coding.
  • Memoises the digest to avoid recalculating on every single request. Huge performance improvement by throttling only one calculation per second.
  • Rewrote Base64 encoding to use browser's native btoa function.

Related

  • Unbundle - Originally developed for, and extracted from, this package.
  • cache-digest.js - Passes the same test suite for guaranteed binary output compatibility.

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