Simple Cache

A simple in-memory cache store with optional expiry and no external dependencies.

Requirements:

• node.js >= 4.0.0

Install

npm install simple-memory-cache

Options - set()

• name Required: The name of the cache item
• data Required: The data that you want to cache
• clear Optional: The amount of time you want to store the data in memory for in milliseconds, the default is forever.

Examples

Basic setting and getting data

var Cache = require('simple-memory-cache')
var cache = new Cache()

var errors = cache.set({ name: 'myCache', data: { people: ['Sam', 'Dom'] }})
if (errors.error) {
  console.log(errors.error)
}

var cacheData = cache.get('myCache')
if (cacheData.error) {
  return console.log(cacheData.error)
}

console.log(cacheData.data)
console.log(cacheData.name)

Setting data with an expiry

var errors = cache.set({ name: 'myCache', clear: 10000, data: { people: ['Sam', 'Dom'] }})

License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Sam Stefan, http://samstefan.co.uk

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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