Hey Devs...
You may have heard about the word caching, but do you know what caching is?
In general, caching is the process of storing copies of files/data in a temporary storage location, so that they can be accessed more quickly.
When developing a web application - caching is implemented on the client-side ( Frontend ), but Why?
Let's understand this via an example:
`Let's say you have a website with a large number of images. Every time a user visits a page on your website, their browser needs to download these images from your server. This process takes time and slows down the page loading speed.
Now, imagine if you could store these images on the user's device the first time they visit your website. The next time they access the same page, instead of downloading the images again, their browser can retrieve them from the temporary storage location, known as the cache`
This is for just storing an image -- there are multiple occasions when you want to store data and even update whenever needed - For that, you need to implement a robust caching mechanism.
For React - I can suggest to use react-query
Experience devs here, can you suggest some great libraries for implementing the cache mechanism?
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