CachedFs

Wrap node.js' fs module in a cached read-only version that exposes the same interface. Can speed up things if you're reading the same files and directories multiple times.

Doesn't expose the functions that write to disc, so no cache invalidation is ever performed internally.

var CachedFs = require('cachedfs'),
    fs = new CachedFs(require('fs'));

fs.readFile('foo.txt', function (err, contents) {
    fs.readFile('foo.txt', function (err, contentsAgain) {
        // Much faster this time!
    });
});

Supported functions:

• stat
• lstat
• fstat
• readlink
• realpath
• readdir
• readFile
• exists

Bonus features:

• File names are absolutified and normalized before being used in a cache key, so you'll get cache hits even if you refer to the same file with different syntaxes, eg. a relative and an absolute path.
• Errors are also cached.
• Even if the underlying fs implementation doesn't support a given sync method, it will produce the correct result if the CachedFs instance happens to have a cached copy of the async method's result.

Installation

Make sure you have node.js and npm installed, then run:

npm install cachedfs

License

3-clause BSD license -- see the LICENSE file for details.