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magnars
Customise caching for serving live assets
I would like to tweak the way assets are cached by optimus.strategies/serve-live-assets.
It would be nice to have an ability to pass through the options a function that would wrap get-optimized-assets defined in optimus.strategies/serve-live-assets and implement it's own caching.
The reason I need this is that for me serving an uncached assets is slow (page loading takes up to 5 seconds, probably because of several regular expressions in assets definition). TTL caching is not an option for me, because I wan't to see changes instantly when I edit the files. So I decided to implement a strategy with directory watching and cache invalidation when files in directory are changed. So far it's working fine for me, but I had to copy-paste all private functions from optimus.strategies.
The strategy you have made sounds like an excellent addition to the strategies offered by Optimus, and I would be happy to accept a pull request with the feature.
@magnars , could you please take a look at my commit? It's a rough idea (quick hack) that works for me.
How can I get rid of hardcoded "resources" path? Is there a function in optimus that returns a base directory for assets?
Tell me if you like the idea and I will polish the code and write tests.
Optimus serves assets from the classpath, so the file location is unknown. We do pass in a folder (public most commonly) where the assets are, but these could be coming from anywhere.
To make this work, we'll have to presume that people are serving their assets from a single directory on disk, make resources a default, and add an option to override it. We'll also have to warn people not to use this strategy in production. :)
Thoughts?
Here it is. Sorry for long waiting - I have time for this only during weekends.