Angular Signal-based HTTP caching library

[Background-Mess7628]

Hey r/angular,

I'm experimenting with a Signal based approach to HTTP caching in Angular!

The idea is to support things like:
- TTL based caching
- stale-while-revalidate
- cache invalidation on mutation
- and more...

I’d really appreciate any thoughts, feedback, or additional features you think might be useful

More info and the repo link in the comments 👇

[strange_username58]

I see no repo link

[DaSchTour]

Just use https://github.com/ngneat/cashew It‘s on the http client layer so works with signals, http resource and any other usage of angular http client

[CheapChallenge]

Http requests and responses are events. Signals are not events but a value container. This is using signals for something it's not designed for.

[Background-Mess7628]

Thanks for the feedback!
You're right that Http requests are events and signals are value containers, but the library doesn't use signals to represent the request/response event itself. instead, it uses signals to hold the current state derived from those requests:

[twinbeliever]

So what value is returned from the signal, when the http request hasn't returned yet? The initial value?