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cashcow

v1.3.1

Published

cashcow is a smart cache fetcher that pools consumers and minimises memory usage

Downloads

9

Readme

cashcow

A smart cached value fetcher that...

  • pools consumers while fetching to avoid doing multiple trips
  • guarantees only one instance of resource is ever held in memory
  • satisfies consumers early if already fetching

cashcow is not prescriptive about what cache your using, simply provide it with two functions:

  • get(key) a function that gets value from cache and returns a promise for that value
  • populate(key) optionally provide function that populates the cache and returns a promise for the value when complete

installation

npm install cashcow

usage


// scenario 1: lazy population of individual cache keys

var cashcow = require('cashcow')
var cowFetch = cashcow(get, populate)

function get (key) {
  return myCache.get(key)
}

function populate (key) {
  return fetchFromSource(key).then(function (val) {
    return myCache.set(key, val)
  })
}

// usage
cowFetch(key) // populates cache then returns val from cache
cowFetch(key) // combined with previous fetch
cowFetch(key).then(function (val) {
  // cache has been populated
  cowFetch(key) // gets from cache
  cowFetch(key) // combined with previous fetch
  cowFetch(key).then(function (val) {
    cowFetch(key) // requests again from cache
  })
})


// scenario 2: lazy population of entire cache

var cashcow = require('cashcow')
var cowFetch = cashcow(populate)

function get (key) {
  return myCache.get(key).then(function (val) {
    if (!val) return cowFetch().then(() => get(key))
  })
}

function populate () {
  return fetchAllFromSource().then(myCache.hydrateAll)
}

// usage
get(key) // fetches from cache, calls populates to populate entire cache
get(key) // call to populate combined with previous one
get(key).then(function (val) {
  // cache has been populated
  get(key) // val fetched straight from cache
})

run tests

npm test

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