React Page Cache

cache react pages.

Deprecated

see the new project react-view-cache

Introduction

SPA is good and bad. As I encountered, one shortage is the easy-losing page context: you go to a new page, and click back button on mobile or browser, biting your apple and expecting the previous page, and ... W**??? The page is reloading and the infinite-scroll list you have dragged for a year is just gone!!! Ok, let's add some data cache mechanism to this page, and soon you will punch your monitor because this work is not easy to do, and there are more and more states and pages your want to enhance. So what's the key? Why Bob can buy everything in anytime without going to ask his mom? Well, because he just caches the cash in his pocket (and he is rich)! So, I am rich of memories with 4GB on my mobile phone and 8GB on my computer, don't stop me caching 100,000,000 pages!

Usage

Install this package

npm i --save react-page-cache

Create a cache manager and mount the renderer

import createCacheManager from 'react-page-cache';

const manager = createCacheManager();
ReactDOM.render(
    manager.renderer,
    document.getElementById('root')
);

Activate page as you need

 manager.activatePage({
    id: 'unique page id',
    args: {...}, // whatever page args, optional
    page: (args, cacheState)=><MyTestPage {...}/>, // how to build the page by the args; cacheState consists of {isActive, id}
    cacheTime: 10 * 60 * 1000 // cache time after this page is inactivated, if omitted, it will equal to global options
    scrollTop: ... // if undefined, it will recover to the previous scroll position; if null, remain current position; if number, then scroll to it
})

If you really need, you can inactivate all pages

manager.inactivePages()

Sometimes you may want ot force to expire or remove a cached page

manager.removePage(id)

You can set global options

manager.GlobalOptions.cacheTime = 5 * 60 * 1000;
manager.GlobalOptions.cacheLimit = 5;

You can prevent default scroll restoration to get better scroll effect

if ('scrollRestoration' in history) {
  history.scrollRestoration = 'manual';
}

Demo Repo

here

License

MIT