fresh efficiently checks HTTP request freshness using the Cache-Control and If-None-Match headers. It simplifies conditional GET logic for servers by comparing request and response headers to determine if a cached response is still valid. This avoids unnecessary data transfer and improves application performance. Ideal for optimizing caching in web applications and APIs, fresh helps reduce bandwidth usage and server load, leading to faster response times for clients.
The npm package fresh has irregular release frequency. Initial releases occurred in June 2012. Releases continued sporadically until September 2017. After a long pause, two versions were released in September 2024. There have been no releases since.
Fresh npm package downloads show strong growth from February 2024 (10.9M) to July 2025 (206.8M). Downloads peaked in July 2025, followed by a significant drop in August 2025 (151.5M), likely due to the month's incompleteness. Overall, the package exhibits a positive trend in popularity.
