express-batching

A small higher order component for in-process batching and caching of API requests

Installation

$ npm install --save express-batching

Usage

const expressBatching = require('express-batching');
const app = require('express')();
const catRoutes = require('./catRoutes');
 
// normal
app.get('/cats', catRoutes.findAll);
 
// with batching
app.get('/cats', expressBatching(catRoutes.findAll));
 
// accepting a hash function for parameterized requests
app.get('/cats/:id', expressBatching(req => req.params.id, catRoutes.findOne));
 

Contributing

Contribute!

TODOs

In order of importance

• get a cool logo
• optimize perf
• config param
  • cache timeout
  • max queue size
• setter injection for alternative cache (redis)
• moar tests

Testing

mocha --require clarify lib/index.test.js --watch

License

Apache-2.0 © blugavere