memcache

NodeJS memcached client with the most efficient ASCII protocol parser.

Features

• Very efficient memcached ASCII protocol parser by using only NodeJS Buffer APIs.
• Optional compression for the data before sending to memcached
• Auto reconnects when there's network error or timeout
• Support sending arbitrary commands. Read up on the protocol doc here.
• Support storing string, numeric, and JSON values
• APIs Support callback or Promise
• Support fire and forget requests
• Support multiple connections
• Support TLS connections

Packages

This repo uses lerna to manage multiple packages.

• memcache-client - The primary package which is the memcached client.
• memcache-parser - A very efficient memcached ASCII protocol parser.
• memcached-njs - A working memcached server implemented in NodeJS for tests.

Development environment installation

1. Clone this repo
2. run nvm use
3. run npm ci
4. run npm run bootstrap
5. optional: just to make sure everything is fine run npm run build and check if there's no error using that command
6. Testing: run npm test

Publishing notes

• Recommended publish flow is to publish the modules individually using npm publish, can be improved to use lerna in the future

Other Implementations

• memcached
• node-memcache
• mc
• memcachejs

License

Apache-2.0 © Joel Chen