ice-chest

ice-chest is a caching library that makes it easier to create and manage a cache.

Usage

const IceChest = require('ice-chest');

const iceChest = new IceChest({
  cacheLocation: '/path/to/cache/location',
  maxCacheSize: 1024 * 1024 * 2, // Size in byte, optional
});

// This has to be JSON.serializable, ice-chest will not check this for you.
const contentToCache = {
  somekey: 'Some value that is very expensive to compute',
};

const cacheKey = iceChest.createCacheKey(contentToCache);
const write = iceChest.writeToCache(cacheKey, contentToCache); // returns a Promise

write.then(() => {
  // loadFromCache also returns a promise.
  iceChest.loadFromCache(cacheKey).then(cachedContent => {
    console.log(cachedContent); // deep equals contentToCache
  });
});

Constructor Options

cacheLocation - Absolute path to the folder that you would like to use for caching.

maxCacheSize - Optional, max cache size in bytes. If this flag is passed, ice-chest will attempt to compress/delete old files from your cache to stay under the limit on process exit.

Note: maxCacheSize is only respected when the process is exiting, during the process run you may temporarily exceed the maxCacheSize. It's important to have sufficient free disk space.

FAQ

Why not compress at write time instead of process exit?

• Compression in node is super slow, if you're writing lots of stuff to the cache this will significantly slow down your application.

Can I provide my own cache key generating function?

• No, but you can use your own function to generate the key, and skip the call to generateCacheKey altogether.