Koa Static Cache

Static server for koa.

Differences between this library and other libraries such as static:

• There is no directory or index.html support.
• You may optionally store the data in memory - it streams by default.
• Caches the assets on initialization - you need to restart the process to update the assets.
• Uses MD5 hash sum as an ETag.
• Uses .gz files if present on disk, like nginx gzip_static module

Installation

$ npm install koa-static-cache

API

staticCache(dir [, options] [, files])

var path = require('path')
var staticCache = require('koa-static-cache')

app.use(staticCache(path.join(__dirname, 'public'), {
  maxAge: 365 * 24 * 60 * 60
}))

• dir (str) - the directory you wish to serve, priority than options.dir.
• options.dir (str) - the directory you wish to serve, default to process.cwd.
• options.maxAge (int) - cache control max age for the files, 0 by default.
• options.cacheControl (str) - optional cache control header. Overrides options.maxAge.
• options.buffer (bool) - store the files in memory instead of streaming from the filesystem on each request.
• options.gzip (bool) - when request's accept-encoding include gzip, files will compressed by gzip.
• options.usePrecompiledGzip (bool) - try use gzip files, loaded from disk, like nginx gzip_static
• options.alias (obj) - object map of aliases. See below.
• options.prefix (str) - the url prefix you wish to add, default to ''.
• files (obj) - optional files object. See below.
• options.dynamic (bool) - dynamic load file which not cached on initialization.
• options.filter (function | array) - filter files at init dir, for example - skip non build (source) files. If array set - allow only listed files

Aliases

For example, if you have this alias object:

{
  '/favicon.png': '/favicon-32.png'
}

Then requests to /favicon.png will actually return /favicon-32.png without redirects or anything. This is particularly important when serving favicons as you don't want to store duplicate images.

Files

You can pass in an optional files object. This allows you to do two things:

Combining directories into a single middleware

Instead of doing:

app.use(staticCache('/public/js'))
app.use(staticCache('/public/css'))

You can do this:

var files = {}

// Mount the middleware
app.use(staticCache('/public/js', {}, files))

// Add additional files
staticCache('/public/css', {}, files)

The benefit is that you'll have one less function added to the stack as well as doing one hash lookup instead of two.

Editing the files object

For example, if you want to change the max age of /package.json, you can do the following:

var files = {}

app.use(staticCache('/public', {
  maxAge: 60 * 60 * 24 * 365
}, files))

files['/package.json'].maxAge = 60 * 60 * 24 * 30

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Jonathan Ong me@jongleberry.com

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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