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spatie/laravel-responsecache
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Speed up a Laravel application by caching the entire response

8.4.1(1mo ago)2.8k9.0M↓12.8%24520MITPHPPHP ^8.4CI passing

Since Jul 16Pushed 1w ago40 watchersCompare

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[](#speed-up-an-app-by-caching-the-entire-response)

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This Laravel package can cache an entire response. By default it will cache all successful GET requests that return text based content (such as HTML and JSON) for a week. This could potentially speed up the response quite considerably.

The first time a request comes in, the package will save the response before sending it to the user. When the same request comes in again, the cached response is returned without going through the entire application.

Here's a quick example:

```
use Spatie\ResponseCache\Middlewares\CacheResponse;

Route::middleware(CacheResponse::for(minutes(10)))->group(function () {
    Route::get('/posts', [PostController::class, 'index']);
    Route::get('/posts/{post}', [PostController::class, 'show']);
});
```

For pages where brief staleness is acceptable, you can use flexible caching. After the lifetime expires, the stale response is still served instantly while the cache refreshes in the background. Once the grace period is over, the cache is considered expired and the next request will be fully recalculated:

```
use Spatie\ResponseCache\Middlewares\FlexibleCacheResponse;

Route::get('/dashboard', [DashboardController::class, 'index'])
    ->middleware(FlexibleCacheResponse::for(lifetime: hours(1), grace: minutes(5)));
```

Support us
----------

[](#support-us)

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We invest a lot of resources into creating [best in class open source packages](https://spatie.be/open-source). You can support us by [buying one of our paid products](https://spatie.be/open-source/support-us).

We highly appreciate you sending us a postcard from your hometown, mentioning which of our package(s) you are using. You'll find our address on [our contact page](https://spatie.be/about-us). We publish all received postcards on [our virtual postcard wall](https://spatie.be/open-source/postcards).

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

All documentation is available [on our documentation site](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-responsecache).

Testing
-------

[](#testing)

You can run the tests with:

```
composer test
```

Changelog
---------

[](#changelog)

Please see [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/spatie/.github/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

Security Vulnerabilities
------------------------

[](#security-vulnerabilities)

Please review [our security policy](../../security/policy) on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- [Freek Van der Herten](https://github.com/freekmurze)
- [All Contributors](../../contributors)

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE.md) for more information.

###  Health Score

83

—

ExcellentBetter than 100% of packages

Maintenance96

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity74

Solid adoption and visibility

Community50

Growing community involvement

Maturity97

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 69.6% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~44 days

Recently: every ~22 days

Total

91

Last Release

41d ago

Major Versions

4.4.4 → v5.x-dev2018-10-18

4.4.5 → 5.0.02019-02-27

5.0.3 → 6.0.02019-05-20

6.6.9 → 7.0.02021-04-02

7.7.2 → 8.0.02026-02-16

PHP version history (10 changes)0.0.1PHP >=5.5.0

v1.x-devPHP >=5.6.0

3.0.1PHP ^7.0

5.0.0PHP ^7.2

6.0.0PHP ^7.3

6.4.0PHP ^7.4

6.6.7PHP ^7.4|^8.0

7.0.0PHP ^8.0

7.5.0PHP ^8.2

8.0.0PHP ^8.4

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7535935?v=4)[Spatie](/maintainers/spatie)[@spatie](https://github.com/spatie)

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Tags

cachelaravelperformancephpvarnishresponsespatielaravelperformancecachelaravel-responsecache

###  Code Quality

TestsPest

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StyleLaravel Pint

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