Theo's Typesafe Cult•7mo ago

How do you cache tRPC server responses w/Next App Router?

What is the correct way to define the cache for tRPC endpoints with [email protected] & Next App Router? Cache-Control headers are overwritten by NextJs (https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/next-config-js/headers#cache-control) Meaning the tRPC docs are not relevant (https://trpc.io/docs/server/caching) I have validated this with a very simple trpc route returning new Date().toJSON(). Current setup in create-t3-app appears to be 'no-cache' for these endpoints. NextJs will not respect cache-control headers set via responseMeta in the fetchRequestHandler, or via context.

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psihoza•5mo ago

I'm banging my head with this for days. You saved me some work on testing Cache-control headers. My worry is is mainly caching database queries, to cut the costs down. I have more than a few that change rarely but are queried by many different users daily. But once I mutate the data, I want to invalidate the cache right away. My second option was to wrap db query in unstable_cache, in trpc router endpoints, then use revalidateTag in mutate endpoints. This seems to work ok, but looks ugly and I'm not sure I want to go that route and spend days refactoring all my endpoints. Also, this caches only db query part of the API response and ideally I want to cache complete response. Last option is beta of Vercel's Data Cache (https://vercel.com/docs/infrastructure/data-cache) but it extends fetch and I dont see how to use it with trpc. A bit frustrated, so close to dumping trpc alltogether. So much more options for regular fetch. So far, what I did... I created a small wrapper for caching db queries:

export const cachedQuery = async <T>(
  query: Promise<T>,
  keys: string[],
  revalidation: { tags: string[]; revalidate: number },
  name?: string
) => {
  let cacheHit = true
  const cached = unstable_cache(
    async () => {
      cacheHit = false
      console.log(`>>>>>>> DB QUERY '${name ?? revalidation.tags[0] ?? 'unknown'}' will run... `)
      return await query
    },
    keys,
    revalidation
  )

  const queryResult = await cached()

  if (cacheHit)
    console.log(`<><><><><> DB QUERY '${name ?? revalidation.tags[0] ?? 'unknown'}' cache hit!`)

  return queryResult
}

export const cachedQuery = async <T>(
  query: Promise<T>,
  keys: string[],
  revalidation: { tags: string[]; revalidate: number },
  name?: string
) => {
  let cacheHit = true
  const cached = unstable_cache(
    async () => {
      cacheHit = false
      console.log(`>>>>>>> DB QUERY '${name ?? revalidation.tags[0] ?? 'unknown'}' will run... `)
      return await query
    },
    keys,
    revalidation
  )

  const queryResult = await cached()

  if (cacheHit)
    console.log(`<><><><><> DB QUERY '${name ?? revalidation.tags[0] ?? 'unknown'}' cache hit!`)

  return queryResult
}

... so my route executes db queries like this:

    const keys = ['user', 'getAllUsers']
    const revalidation = {
      tags: ['user.getAllUsers'],
      revalidate: 60 * 60 * 24,
    }

    return cachedQuery(
      ctx.db
        .select({
          id: users.id,
          name: users.name,
        })
        .from(users),
      keys,
      revalidation
    )

    const keys = ['user', 'getAllUsers']
    const revalidation = {
      tags: ['user.getAllUsers'],
      revalidate: 60 * 60 * 24,
    }

    return cachedQuery(
      ctx.db
        .select({
          id: users.id,
          name: users.name,
        })
        .from(users),
      keys,
      revalidation
    )

This way its realtively easy to change routes, quickly test if it works ok and future changes unstable_cache API should be easier to implement. ... now testing.

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How do you cache tRPC server responses w/Next App Router?