aish-26-2000 / Caching-with-node-redis

An example of using node-redis client for caching data

Caching with node-redis

node-redis

node-redis is a modern, high performance Redis client for Node.js.

Installation

To use Redis with Node.js, you need to install a Node.js Redis client.

Install node-redis : npm install redis

Caching

Caching is the process of storing retrieved and processed data temporarily in a “ready-to-use” state.

if we have some data coming from a third-party API,

retrieve the data from the API

store the data in a cache

the next time the server receives the same request, it retrieves the data from the cache