The uncoolness of CacheStorage

2022/09/18

I mean this CacheStorage, a browser API for saving HTTP-like Response objects indexed by HTTP-like Request objects. The thing commonly used from a Service Worker.

Three: The class that you end up using, Cache, has a name so generic that it’s ungoogleable.

Two: You can’t put a pending response into a Cache, so you have to do your own coordination to prevent a cache stampede.

One: IMO it’s not a cache at all. From all I’ve read about it, data stored in a Cache is treated as preciously as IndexedDB. The browser will not help you clean out unused entries. It’s just storage.

P. S., markdown auto numbering, you’re killing me

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