New backend proposal: CacheStorageFS

[billiegoose]

I'm not actually working on this yet (I'm still using IndexedDB in the Service Worker), but I think it would be cool so I'll write this idea down anyway.

It's still experimental, but the CacheStorage API is very cool:

• it's a key / value store
• for arbitrary files (no need to serialize/deserialize)
• supports streaming
• no fixed size limits (limits are determined by the quota API which is still in development)
• caches global available in both Window and Service Worker scopes
• supports quickly downloading and caching a batch of files for offline access via Cache.addAll()

[jvilk]

Sounds nice. I would call it CacheStorageFS instead, since I would like to have some sort of generic caching file system implemented in the future (#95).

[james-pre]

Please use https://github.com/browser-fs/core/issues/7