tinycache

A simple, small (~100 lines) in-memory cache for node.js or the browser (~1.5KB minified).

Installation

npm install tinycache

Usage

Node

var TinyCache = require( 'tinycache' );
var cache = new TinyCache();

// now just use the cache

cache.put( 'foo', 'bar' );
console.log( cache.get( 'foo' ) );

// that wasn't too interesting, here's the good part

cache.put( 'houdini', 'disapear', 100 ); // Time in ms
console.log( 'Houdini will now ' + cache.get( 'houdini' ) );

setTimeout( function() {
  console.log( 'Houdini is ' + cache.get( 'houdini' ) );
}, 200 );

// don't want to allocate separate caches?
// there's also a default shared cache:
var sharedCache = Cache.shared;
sharedCache.put( 'foo', 'bar' );

// or you could grab it in a one-liner
var theSharedCache = require( 'tinycache' ).shared;

Browser

Using Component (http://component.io)

component install andyburke/tinycache

...

var TinyCache = require( 'tinycache' );
...

By hand

<script src="tinycache.min.js"></script>
<script>
    var cache = new TinyCache();
    cache.put( 'foo', 'bar' );
</script>

API

put = function(key, value, time)

• Simply stores a value.
• If time isn't passed in, it is stored forever.
• Will actually remove the value in the specified time (via setTimeout)

get = function(key)

• Retreives a value for a given key

del = function(key)

• Deletes a key

clear = function()

• Deletes all keys

size = function()

• Returns the current number of entries in the cache

memsize = function()

• Returns the number of entries taking up space in the cache
• Will usually == size() unless a setTimeout removal went wrong

hits = function()

• Returns the number of cache hits

misses = function()

• Returns the number of cache misses.

TODO

• Namespaces
• A way of walking the cache for diagnostic purposes

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Send me a pull request.

Thanks

Many thanks to Paul Tarjan for the first iteration of this library (https://github.com/ptarjan/node-cache).