storage-utils

A set of functions that makes caching using the Storage interface (localStorage, sessionStorage) easy. It's extremely lightweight, well tested, and comes with top-notch TypeScript definitions out of the box. Documentation generated from source found here.

Features

• New Reach hook for seamless caching
• Invalidation of cached items after a period of time when specified (simple using the conversion functions that are included)
• Stale data is passed back to the getData callback so that only 'new' data needs to be fetched over the network
• getHighlyAvailable allows using a function that will optionally resolve twice. Once with the cached data, and then with the fetched data (if the cache has expired).

API

link

Examples

Barebones

getOrAdd(
    localStorage,
    "someUniqueKey",
    fetchItems,
    convertMinutesToMilliseconds(5) // considered valid for 5 minutes
  ).then((items) => {
    // data here is either coming from the cache or the fetch we provided
    console.log(items);
  });

React Caching Hook

import React from "react";
import { useCache, convertMinutesToMilliseconds } from "storage-utils";
import { get } from "./RestClient"; // not in this library
 
const url = "/api/name";
const fetchName = () => get<string>(url);
 
export function Name() {
  let name = useCache(
    localStorage, // localStorage will save across browser sessions
    url, // using the url as a cache key, but this depends on the use
    fetchName, // can be anything that returns a promise of something
    0, // immediately consider this value dirty
    true // use an expired value from the cache if it exists
  );
 
  // loading will only ever be shown the very first time
  // since we are using the option to use the expired
  // value from cache while the fetch processes in the
  // background and eventually causes a re-render
  if (name === undefined) return <div>Loading</div>;
 
  return <div>{name}</div>;
}