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🔥 An extremely fast, efficient, and lightweight
LRU Cache for
JavaScript (
Browser compatible).
## Why another LRU?
- 🎖️ **lru.min** is fully compatible with both **Node.js** _(8+)_, **Bun**, **Deno** and, browser environments. All of this, while maintaining the same high performance [_(and a little more)_](https://github.com/wellwelwel/lru.min?tab=readme-ov-file#performance) as the most popular **LRU** packages.
---
## Install
```bash
# Node.js
npm i lru.min
```
```bash
# Bun
bun add lru.min
```
```bash
# Deno
deno add npm:lru.min
```
---
## Usage
### Quickstart
```js
import { createLRU } from 'lru.min';
const max = 2;
const onEviction = (key, value) => {
console.log(`Key "${key}" with value "${value}" has been evicted.`);
};
const LRU = createLRU({
max,
onEviction,
});
LRU.set('A', 'My Value');
LRU.set('B', 'Other Value');
LRU.set('C', 'Another Value');
// => Key "A" with value "My Value" has been evicted.
LRU.has('B');
LRU.get('B');
LRU.delete('B');
// => Key "B" with value "Other Value" has been evicted.
LRU.peek('C');
LRU.clear(); // ← recommended | LRU.evict(max) → (slower alternative)
// => Key "C" with value "Another Value" has been evicted.
LRU.set('D', "You're amazing 💛");
LRU.size; // 1
LRU.max; // 2
LRU.available; // 1
LRU.resize(10);
LRU.size; // 1
LRU.max; // 10
LRU.available; // 9
```
> For _up-to-date_ documentation, always follow the [**README.md**](https://github.com/wellwelwel/lru.min?tab=readme-ov-file#readme) in the **GitHub** repository.
### Import
#### ES Modules
```js
import { createLRU } from 'lru.min';
```
#### CommonJS
```js
const { createLRU } = require('lru.min');
```
#### Browser
> Requires **ES6**.
```html
```
- You can use tools such as [**Babel**](https://github.com/babel/babel) to increase the compatibility rate.
### Create a new LRU Cache
> Set maximum size when creating **LRU**.
```ts
const LRU = createLRU({ max: 150_000 });
```
Also, you can set a callback for every deletion/eviction:
```ts
const LRU = createLRU({
max: 150_000,
onEviction: (key, value) => {
// do something
},
});
```
### Set a cache
Adds a key-value pair to the cache. Updates the value if the key already exists
```ts
LRU.set('key', 'value');
```
> `undefined` keys will simply be ignored.
- Complexity: **O(1)**.
### Get a cache
Retrieves the value for a given key and moves the key to the most recent position.
```ts
LRU.get('key');
```
- Complexity: **O(1)**.
### Peek a cache
Retrieves the value for a given key without changing its position.
```ts
LRU.peek('key');
```
- Complexity: **O(1)**.
### Check if a key exists
```ts
LRU.has('key');
```
- Complexity: **O(1)**.
### Delete a cache
```ts
LRU.delete('key');
```
- Complexity: **O(1)**.
### Evict from the oldest cache
Evicts the specified number of the oldest items from the cache.
```ts
LRU.evict(1000);
```
- Complexity: **O(key)** — even if passed a number greater than the number of items, only existing items will be evicted.
> [!TIP]
>
> - Methods that perform eviction(s) when maximum size is reached: `set` and `resize`.
> - Methods that always perform eviction(s): `delete`, `clear`, and `evict` itself.
### Resize the cache
Resizes the cache to a new maximum size, evicting items if necessary.
```ts
LRU.resize(50_000);
```
- Complexity:
- Increasing: **O(newMax - max)**.
- Downsizing: **O(n)**.
### Clear the cache
Clears and disposes (if used) all key-value pairs from the cache.
```ts
LRU.clear();
```
- Complexity:
- Without `onEviction`: **O(1)**.
- Using `onEviction`: **O(entries)**.
### Debugging
#### Get the max size of the cache
```ts
LRU.max;
```
- Complexity: **O(1)**.
#### Get the current size of the cache
```ts
LRU.size;
```
- Complexity: **O(1)**.
#### Get the available slots in the cache
```ts
LRU.available;
```
- Complexity: **O(1)**.
### Iterating the cache
#### Get all keys
Iterates over all keys in the cache, from most recent to least recent.
```ts
const keys = [...LRU.keys()];
```
- Complexity: **O(keys)**.
#### Get all values
Iterates over all values in the cache, from most recent to least recent.
```ts
const values = [...LRU.values()];
```
- Complexity: **O(values)**.
#### Get all entries
Iterates over `[key, value]` pairs in the cache, from most recent to least recent.
```ts
const entries = [...LRU.entries()];
```
- Complexity: **O(entries)**.
#### Run a callback for each entry
Iterates over each value-key pair in the cache, from most recent to least recent.
```ts
LRU.forEach((value, key) => {
// do something
});
```
- Complexity: **O(entries)**.
---
> [!NOTE]
>
> - We use `O(keys)`, `O(values)`, `O(entries)`, and `O(newMax - max)` to explicitly indicate what is being iterated over. In traditional complexity notation, this would be represented as `O(n)`.
---
### TypeScript
You can set types for both keys and values. For example:
```ts
import { createLRU } from 'lru.min';
type Key = number;
type Value = {
name: string;
};
const LRU = createLRU