loopback-redis-cache

Redis cache mixin for loopback.io

Features

• Cache every GET request using only one get option.
• Different Redis server for each model with fallback to config.json Redis server.
• Invalidate cache on every create, update or delete.

Installation

loopback-redis-cache requires Node.js v4+ to run.

Install using npm

$ npm install loopback-redis-cache --save

Add to /server/config.json

 "redis": {
"host": "127.0.0.1",
"password": "your-redis-password"
}

Add to /server/model-config.json

 "mixins": [
...
"../node_modules/loopback-redis-cache"
...
]

Plugins

loopback-redis-cache is currently extended with the following plugins.

Plugin	README
redis	[https://github.com/NodeRedis/node_redis/blob/master/README.md]
redis-delete-pattern	[https://github.com/uber-archive/redis-delete-pattern/blob/master/README.md]

How to use it

At your model (using config.json settings)

 "mixins": {
"Rediscache": {} }

At your model (using external redis server)

 "mixins": {
"Rediscache": {
"client": {
"host": "redis.server.ip.address",
"password": "redis-password"
}
} }

Example http://0.0.0.0:3000/api/games?cache=120 cache value in seconds

AngularJS SDK example

 Category.findOne({
filter: {
where: {
categoryId: $scope.Id
}
},
cache: 123
}, function (item) {
console.log(item);
}, function (err) {
console.log(err);
});