prepare-response
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Prepare a text resposne to be efficiently sent
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prepare-response
Prepare a text resposne to be efficiently sent. This is useful when you want to completly cache a specific response in memory and handle etags and gzip.
Installation
npm install prepare-responseUsage
Exports a function with the signature prepare(body, headers), where body is a Buffer or String and headers is an Object.
var express = require('express');
var prepare = require('prepare-response');
var app = express();
var html = prepare('<!DOCTYPE html><html></html>', {'content-type': 'html'}, {
etag: true, // default: true
gzip: true // default: true
});
var script = prepare('alert("foo");', {'content-type': 'js', 'cache-control': '1 year'});
app.get('/', function (req, res, next) {
html.send(req, res, next);
});
app.get('/client.js', function (req, res, next) {
script.send(req, res, next);
});All headers are passed through as is, except cache-control and content-type.
cache-control- If you pass a number in milliseconds, or a string in the format accepted by ms it will be converted to the appropriate public cache header.content-type- If you don't pass a valid content-type, it will be looked up using mime.
License
MIT