apollo3-cache-persist-compressed

Exposes wrappers built on top of apollo3-cache-persist, but leverages compression via GZip (powered by fflate) to reduce the size of the stored cache.

Currently, the only wrapper exposed is CompressedLocalForageWrapper, which is a drop-in replacement for LocalForageWrapper from apollo3-cache-persist, but persists the cache in a compressed format. localForage supports all sorts of JavaScript objects, including binary data (Uint8Array), so it's a good choice for persisting compressed data as binary, which saves us from having to convert the compressed binary to a base64 string.

Compressing strings, especially Apollo Client's cache is quite efficient because a cache (even a normalized one) will have a lot of repeated tokens, which can be compressed quite well. The GZip compression is powered by fflate.

Compresses a cache of 1 MB into 60 KB in 22ms 🔥 (Tested on an M1 Pro).

By default, apollo3-cache-persist only persists a stringified version of the cache up to 1,048,576 characters (1 MB), which can be quickly reached with a cache of a few hundred entities. This library allows you to compress the cache before persisting it, which can save a lot of space while ensuring you can leverage the full power of Apollo Client's cache rather than purging the cache every few interactions.

Usage

[!WARNING] apollo3-cache-persist-compressed is meant to be used on top of apollo3-cache-persist, make sure to install both!

npm install --save apollo3-cache-persist apollo3-cache-persist-compressed

or

yarn add apollo3-cache-persist apollo3-cache-persist-compressed

Finally, use CompressedLocalForageWrapper as a drop-in replacement for LocalForageWrapper:

[!CAUTION] The compressed storage doesn't support migrating from a string-based cache. Therefore, it's really important to version your localForage via the name config!

[!IMPORTANT] Ensure the serialize option on persistCache isn't turned off, as the compression expects to receive a serialized version of the cache to compress it as a string. serialize defaults to true.

import { InMemoryCache } from '@apollo/client/core';
import { persistCache } from 'apollo3-cache-persist';
import { CompressedLocalForageWrapper } from 'apollo3-cache-persist-compressed';
import localforage from 'localforage';

const cache = new InMemoryCache({...});

localforage.config({
  driver: localforage.INDEXEDDB,
  name: 'apollo-cache-v2',
});

// await before instantiating ApolloClient, else queries might run before the cache is persisted
await persistCache({
  cache,
  storage: new CompressedLocalForageWrapper(localforage),
  serialize: true,
});

// Continue setting up Apollo as usual.

const client = new ApolloClient({
  cache,
  ...
});

License

merge-drivers is MIT licensed.