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Redis Caching in Node.js

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In this video I will show you how to setup caching with Node.js & Redis and look at how it is beneficial. Code: https://gist.github.com/bradtraversy/a9dedcdf4350fd417819ee6538482aae Sponsor: DevMountain Bootcamp https://goo.gl/6q0dEa Windows Download: https://github.com/dmajkic/redis/downloads Redis Crash Course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbt56gFj998 💖 Become a Patron: Show support & get perks! http://www.patreon.com/traversymedia Udemy Courses: https://www.traversymedia.com Follow Traversy Media: https://www.facebook.com/traversymedia https://www.twitter.com/traversymedia https://www.instagram.com/traversymedia

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'text': "Now we're not gonna really build, you know, a real application.", 'start': 79.669, 'duration': 2.863}, {'end': 84.273, 'text': "i'm just going to show you how to implement it.", 'start': 82.532, 'duration': 1.741}, {'end': 91.458, 'text': "but you're going to see the benefits of it and you're going to learn the foundations to to use this in your apps, in your node.js apps,", 'start': 84.273, 'duration': 7.185}, {'end': 95.041, 'text': 'and of course you can use redis with other technologies as well.', 'start': 91.458, 'duration': 3.583}, {'end': 101.746, 'text': "now you do have to install it on your system, so i'm going to show you how to install it on Mac and Windows.", 'start': 95.041, 'duration': 6.705}, {'end': 104.769, 'text': "Well, at least I'm going to tell you how to do it on Windows.", 'start': 101.766, 'duration': 3.003}], 'summary': "Redis caching can reduce requests, speeding up applications. it's applicable to node.js and other technologies, and will be 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Let's go right under where we got the data and let's say const repos and let's pull that from data dot, public underscore repos,", 'start': 582.758, 'duration': 12.655}, {'end': 596.755, 'text': 'which will give us that number.', 'start': 595.413, 'duration': 1.342}, {'end': 598.196, 'text': 'All right.', 'start': 596.775, 'duration': 1.421}, {'end': 602.301, 'text': 'And then this is where we actually want to set to Redis.', 'start': 598.397, 'duration': 3.904}, {'end': 607.694, 'text': 'Okay, our set data to Redis.', 'start': 604.011, 'duration': 3.683}, {'end': 612.538, 'text': 'And the way that we do that is we use our client that we initialized above.', 'start': 608.454, 'duration': 4.084}, {'end': 614.339, 'text': 'And we can do .set.', 'start': 613.078, 'duration': 1.261}, {'end': 620.204, 'text': "Now, I'm going to use setX, which is, it's like set, but you can set an expiration.", 'start': 614.439, 'duration': 5.765}, {'end': 624.947, 'text': 'Because you probably want to set an expiration because the data on the server could change.', 'start': 620.364, 'duration': 4.583}, {'end': 627.789, 'text': "So I'm going to set this .set.", 'start': 624.967, 'duration': 2.822}, {'end': 630.651, 'text': 'Basically, it takes in three things.', 'start': 628.87, 'duration': 1.781}, {'end': 633.873, 'text': "It's going to take in the key, which I'm going to use just the username.", 'start': 630.711, 'duration': 3.162}, {'end': 639.776, 'text': 'So the key is going to be the username, in this case, Brad Traversy, whatever I put in the URL.', 'start': 633.893, 'duration': 5.883}, {'end': 642.358, 'text': 'And then second is the expiration.', 'start': 640.336, 'duration': 2.022}, {'end': 645.599, 'text': "I'm going to do an hour, so 3600 seconds.", 'start': 642.378, 'duration': 3.221}, {'end': 651.703, 'text': 'And then next is the data that we want, which is going to be the repos, the number of repos.', 'start': 645.839, 'duration': 5.864}, {'end': 656.003, 'text': 'OK, so that should set it to our Redis cache.', 'start': 652.662, 'duration': 3.341}, {'end': 662.726, 'text': "And then as far as a response, I'm going to create a function called set response.", 'start': 657.124, 'duration': 5.602}, {'end': 668.949, 'text': "And that's going to take in the username and it's going to take in the repos.", 'start': 664.487, 'duration': 4.462}, {'end': 672.37, 'text': "OK, so let's create that set response up here.", 'start': 669.829, 'duration': 2.541}, {'end': 681.434, 'text': 'I will say function set response.', 'start': 672.39, 'duration': 9.044}], 'summary': 'Code sets data to redis cache with expiration of 3600 seconds and creates a function to set response.', 'duration': 51.115, 'max_score': 582.758, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/oaJq1mQ3dFI/pics/oaJq1mQ3dFI582758.jpg'}, {'end': 744.533, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 697.325, 'weight': 0.741, 'content': [{'end': 715.365, 'text': "we'll just do an h2 and let's put the username, we'll say username has and then repos github, repos okay, and that's it.", 'start': 697.325, 'duration': 18.04}, {'end': 719.807, 'text': "that's all i want for the response and let's try that out.", 'start': 715.365, 'duration': 4.442}, {'end': 721.769, 'text': "so we'll save this now.", 'start': 719.807, 'duration': 1.962}, {'end': 727.071, 'text': "we're not implementing the cache just yet, but it should save the value to redis.", 'start': 721.769, 'duration': 5.302}, {'end': 728.332, 'text': 'okay with this line right here.', 'start': 727.071, 'duration': 1.261}, {'end': 731.827, 'text': "so let's go back and reload and we get Brad Travers.", 'start': 728.332, 'duration': 3.495}, {'end': 733.848, 'text': 'He has 174 GitHub repos.', 'start': 731.927, 'duration': 1.921}, {'end': 744.533, 'text': 'And if we go into our Redis CLI, I should be able to just say get and then the key, which is the username.', 'start': 734.728, 'duration': 9.805}], 'summary': 'Implemented display of username and number of github repos, resulting in 174 repos for user brad travers.', 'duration': 47.208, 'max_score': 697.325, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/oaJq1mQ3dFI/pics/oaJq1mQ3dFI697325.jpg'}], 'start': 387.911, 'title': 'Implementing caching in node.js', 'summary': 'Details the process of implementing caching in a node.js application, including fetching data from the github api, storing it in redis cache, and creating a response to display the number of github repos for a specific username. the implementation also includes the use of setx to set an expiration for the data and the creation of a set response function to display the username and the number of github repos, with the added benefit of reducing response time by utilizing the cache.', 'chapters': [{'end': 468.313, 'start': 387.911, 'title': 'Github repos request', 'summary': 'Discusses creating a function to make requests to github for data, marking it as 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{'end': 1060.675, 'segs': [{'end': 831.157, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 799.532, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 802.916, 'text': 'And we can grab any request params or anything like that.', 'start': 799.532, 'duration': 3.384}, {'end': 804.638, 'text': 'We can grab the username and stuff.', 'start': 802.976, 'duration': 1.662}, {'end': 807.481, 'text': "So let's say function cache.", 'start': 804.758, 'duration': 2.723}, {'end': 812.848, 'text': "And since it's middleware, we need to pass in requests, response and next.", 'start': 808.663, 'duration': 4.185}, {'end': 822.914, 'text': "and i'm going to get the username from the url, so i'm going to just pull it out of request.params.", 'start': 815.172, 'duration': 7.742}, {'end': 831.157, 'text': 'and then what we want to do is use our redis client and we can use the get method.', 'start': 822.914, 'duration': 8.243}], 'summary': "Middleware function 'cache' retrieves username from request params and utilizes redis client for caching.", 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'duration': 2.502}, {'end': 909.527, 'text': 'If I reload eight milliseconds.', 'start': 907.086, 'duration': 2.441}, {'end': 915.47, 'text': 'Okay And if I keep reloading, look, one, two milliseconds.', 'start': 910.527, 'duration': 4.943}, {'end': 917.71, 'text': 'And if we go back to the console, notice it did.', 'start': 915.61, 'duration': 2.1}, {'end': 919.171, 'text': 'We get no fetching data.', 'start': 917.951, 'duration': 1.22}], 'summary': 'Using cash middleware reduced response time from 157ms to 8ms, and further to 1-2ms, with successful data fetching.', 'duration': 28.132, 'max_score': 883.956, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/oaJq1mQ3dFI/pics/oaJq1mQ3dFI883956.jpg'}, {'end': 1000.055, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 945.078, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 952.205, 'text': "But if I reload now, it's going to get the cached version, which now gives us one millisecond.", 'start': 945.078, 'duration': 7.127}, {'end': 959.373, 'text': 'OK, and if I keep reloading and then I look at the console, it only fetched it once.', 'start': 952.865, 'duration': 6.508}, {'end': 962.156, 'text': 'OK, so you can see the benefit here.', 'start': 959.393, 'duration': 2.763}, {'end': 975.179, 'text': 'And if I remove that cache middleware, And we go back and I reload that 625 milliseconds, 186, 133.', 'start': 962.176, 'duration': 13.003}, {'end': 977.762, 'text': 'And if we look in the console, it fetched every time.', 'start': 975.18, 'duration': 2.582}, {'end': 980.524, 'text': 'OK, so you can see the benefit here.', 'start': 978.622, 'duration': 1.902}, {'end': 984.627, 'text': 'Not only it speeds up our application, but it also limits the number of requests.', 'start': 980.624, 'duration': 4.003}, {'end': 991.509, 'text': 'A lot of times, such as with the GitHub API, you have rate limiting and you only have a certain amount of requests you can make.', 'start': 985.325, 'duration': 6.184}, {'end': 996.473, 'text': "So there's a 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