A full version history of the @isaacs/cached package with size, number of distributed files and dependency evolution.
The @isaacs/cached npm package provides a mechanism for caching functions that rely on file paths as input, intelligently invalidating the cache whenever the file's modification timestamp changes. This is particularly useful for improving the performance of applications that frequently access and process data from files, ensuring efficient operation by avoiding redundant reads and computations. The core functionality hinges on the package's ability to monitor file mtime (modification time), a crucial indicator of file updates.
Two versions of the package are currently available: 1.0.0 and 1.0.1. Both versions share the same core description and licensing under BlueOak-1.0.0, emphasizing their foundation on open-source principles. Both depend on @isaacs/catcher for error handling and utilize similar development dependencies including @types/node for TypeScript support, prettier for code formatting, tap for testing, tshy for type checking, and typedoc for generating API documentation.
While functionality descriptions are equal, the key difference seems to be refinement and potential bug fixes within the 1.0.1 release. This is implied by the slightly larger unpacked size of version 1.0.1 which grew from 20805 bytes to 26437 bytes, coupled with later release date. Version 1.0.0 was released on October 30, 2023, and version 1.0.1 was released shortly after on November 4, 2023. Users seeking the most up-to-date and potentially more stable version should opt for version 1.0.1.