Production view cache

[pi0neer]

I'm confused with template caching, i've disabled it with app.disable('view cache');. In development everything is fine, but in production templates are still cached anyways. How can i disable it?

[UziTech]

https://github.com/ericf/express-handlebars#template-caching

Try passing cache: false as an option to the render call

[pi0neer]

It doesn't seem right in my opinion. I just wanna disable it for whole app at once, instead of passing a prop to each render call, also it's really uncomfortable in case of a big app. Documentation even says that is easiest way to control template/view caching and i would like to do it so.

[mortezae]

Hi there. I have two question regarding cache in production. Ask it here because found the question similar to myself.

1. I don't want "page caching" (is it that so called "view cache"?), But I don't want templates read from disk by every request.
2. I want compilation be done just once during app run time If possible. I mean templates to be half ready, to consume less cpu. I don't know whether it's the default behavior (some "implicit precompilation"?).

[UziTech]

Yes caching is default behavior

[mortezae]

Thanks for response. So please, how to avoid page cache while still taking advantage of this default caching behavior?

[UziTech]

app.disable('view cache');

[mortezae]

Yeah, but then It reads the template from disk for each request. This is a test with inotify:

morteza@pc1:~/accounting$  inotifywait views/home.hbs
Setting up watches.
Watches established.
views/home.hbs OPEN   <-- here we receive a new http request

P.S. Clarification: Readme has already been read and question was regarding production mode.

[UziTech]

See https://github.com/express-handlebars/express-handlebars?tab=readme-ov-file#template-caching