About

dashQL is a lightweight GraphQL caching tool utilizing Redis to cache queries at the field level to further improve reponse time and decrease the number of redundant requests required

Features

• Allows for caching at the field level from the GraphQL abstract syntax tree
• Ability to handle query requests both with and without an argument
• Ability to cache deeply nested queries

Getting Started

1. Install redis and define host and port in server file

const redisClient = redis.createClient({
host: "localhost",
port: 6379,
});

2. Download dashQL as an npm module and save it to your package.json as a dependency

npm install dashql

3. Import dashQL into server file

const dashClass = require('dashQL');

4. Add URL (or port number if using localhost) to and ENV file

URL=example.com

// Optional port number
PORT=8080

5. Create an instance of dashQL by passing in redisClient in server file

const dashQL = new dashClass(redisClient);

6. On your server file which handles graphQL requests, name the endpoint '/dashQL' and put in dashQL as your middleware and return res.locals back to client

app.use('/dashQL', dashQL, (req: Request, res: Response) => {
  return res.status(200).send(res.locals.dashQL);
});

7. Enjoy significantly faster response times specifically at the field level not just per query string!

Authors

Dan Bonney LinkedIn | Github
Meredith Fronheiser LinkedIn | Github
Kevin Klochan LinkedIn | Github
Drew Williams LinkedIn | Github