Nuxt•4mo ago

Server API proxy caching approach

Hi all, I have a question regarding an approach to server api caching. I am using Sanity IO as a backend and I'd like to cache my server routes which is no problem. In my case right I have a filter function where a type (e.g. "posts") can be filtered with multiple tags, and I was wondering what the best approach is, because in my test queried cached routes did not work. Since the amount of filters/tags is infinite, I was thinking of a post request and not a get request. But how would I cache this route since the post req is always different/can change? One option I was thinking of is to have a cached route with all posts which then is fetched and filtered by the filtered route? Is that the correct approach? Or should I cache Route Parameters?

server/
└── api/
    ├── posts.get.ts  // cached
    └── filtered.get.ts // not cached

server/
└── api/
    ├── posts.get.ts  // cached
    └── filtered.get.ts // not cached

Whats the best way to approach this? Also the amount of posts is quite large, I am guessing around 1.000 entries Thank you!

2 Replies

manniL•4mo ago

instead of caching the whole route, use defineCachedFunction with all the params needed 😋

tierraOP•4mo ago

Thank you! This is what I was searching for -- will give it a shot! Would this be a correct use within Nuxt?

// utils/posts.ts
import { pageHomeUnfiltered, pageHomeFiltered } from "~~/utils/sanity.queries";

export const cachedPosts = defineCachedFunction(async (filters: string[] | undefined) => {
  const sanity = useSanity();
  if (filters?.length) {
    // fetching filtered data
    const tags = filters.toString().split(',')
    return await sanity.fetch(pageHomeFiltered, { filters: tags});
  } else {
    // fetching unfiltered
    return await sanity.fetch(pageHomeUnfiltered);
  }
}, {
  maxAge: 60 * 60 * 24 * 30, // 1 Month
  name: 'posts',
  getKey: (filters: string[] | undefined) => filters?.length ? arrayToUrlSafeString(filters) : 'allPosts'
})

function arrayToUrlSafeString(arr: string[]) {
  return arr
    .join(' ')                    // Join the array into a single string with spaces
    .toLowerCase()                // Convert to lowercase
    .trim()                       // Remove any leading or trailing spaces
    .replace(/\s+/g, '-')         // Replace spaces with dashes
    .replace(/[^a-z0-9\-]/g, '')  // Remove any non-alphanumeric characters except dashes
}

// utils/posts.ts
import { pageHomeUnfiltered, pageHomeFiltered } from "~~/utils/sanity.queries";

export const cachedPosts = defineCachedFunction(async (filters: string[] | undefined) => {
  const sanity = useSanity();
  if (filters?.length) {
    // fetching filtered data
    const tags = filters.toString().split(',')
    return await sanity.fetch(pageHomeFiltered, { filters: tags});
  } else {
    // fetching unfiltered
    return await sanity.fetch(pageHomeUnfiltered);
  }
}, {
  maxAge: 60 * 60 * 24 * 30, // 1 Month
  name: 'posts',
  getKey: (filters: string[] | undefined) => filters?.length ? arrayToUrlSafeString(filters) : 'allPosts'
})

function arrayToUrlSafeString(arr: string[]) {
  return arr
    .join(' ')                    // Join the array into a single string with spaces
    .toLowerCase()                // Convert to lowercase
    .trim()                       // Remove any leading or trailing spaces
    .replace(/\s+/g, '-')         // Replace spaces with dashes
    .replace(/[^a-z0-9\-]/g, '')  // Remove any non-alphanumeric characters except dashes
}

// server/api/posts.get.ts
import { cachedPosts } from "~~/utils/posts";

export default defineEventHandler(async (event) => {
  const { filter } = getQuery(event)
  const filters = filter?.toString().split(',')
  return await cachedPosts(filters).catch(() => 0)
});

// server/api/posts.get.ts
import { cachedPosts } from "~~/utils/posts";

export default defineEventHandler(async (event) => {
  const { filter } = getQuery(event)
  const filters = filter?.toString().split(',')
  return await cachedPosts(filters).catch(() => 0)
});

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