moment-cache

Moment-cache is a tiny tool to speed up your moment.js calls.

During the app lifecycle we can call moment oftentimes. Every call is time. Time is performance. This tool will increase performance of your app by caching moment.js instances.

Why?

import moment from "moment";
import cache from "moment-cache";

const momentCalls = 99999;
const invalidDateStringWithOffset = "2013-02-08 09+07:00";
const dateStringWithOffset = "2020-05-12T23:50:21.817Z";
const timestamp = 628021800000;
const timeStampDate = "1989-11-25T18:30:00.000Z";

const dateString = "18-03-2024";
const format = "DD-MM-YYYY";

const check = (instance, ...args) => {
  let i = 0;
  const start = new Date();
  while (i <= momentCalls) {
    instance(...args);
    i++;
  }
  return new Date() - start;
};

const cacheTimestamp = check(cache, timestamp); // ~42 ms
const momentTimestamp = check(moment, timestamp); // ~49 ms

const cacheDateString = check(cache, dateString, format); // ~65 ms
const momentDateString = check(moment, dateString, format); // ~390 ms

const cacheDateStringWithOffset = check(cache, dateStringWithOffset); // ~218 ms
const momentDateStringWithOffset = check(moment, dateStringWithOffset); // ~777 ms

const cacheInvalidDateStringWithOffset = check(
  cache,
  invalidDateStringWithOffset
); // ~75 ms
const momentInvalidDateStringWithOffset = check(
  moment,
  invalidDateStringWithOffset
); // ~571 ms

const cacheTimestampDate = check(cache, timeStampDate); // ~202 ms
const momentTimestampDate = check(moment, timeStampDate); // ~755 ms

Syntax:

Arguments:

• date: See moment/parse.
  If the date argument is a string in date only form, it won't be cached since key value can be wrong without offset.

• format: See moment/format.

• clone (by default - true): set false if you are not going to change instance in future. Will increase performance, but any object changes will affect cached result. See moment/clone.

import cache from "moment-cache"; // or moment().cache
const myDate = "06-28-2016";
const format = "MM-DD-YYYY";
const date = cache(myDate, format); // moment.js cached instance
const anotherDate = cache(myDate, format); // rapidly retrieving previously processed result from the cache

Methods:

updateStorage: change cache destination.

Arguments:

• storage: object where cache data is stored. By default - covert object behind the scenes.

import cachable from "moment-cache";
const myStorage = {};
cachable.updateStorage(myStorage);
const date = cachable("23-08-2016", "DD-MM-YYYY");
console.log(myStorage); // {23-08-2016 DD-MM-YYYY: MomentObject}