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gatsby-plugin-sftp-cache

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Cache directories in your gatsby project to a remote server to preserve files and speed up deployments via https://github.com/axe312ger/sftp-cache

Works well with https://github.com/axe312ger/gatsby-plugin-netlify-cache, make sure to enable the netlify-cache plugin before the sftp-cache plugin.

Features

  • Download from cache directory and refill it again
  • Compare file by missing on other end, modification date, file size and md5 hash
  • Keeps file modification date
  • Client: Windows, Linux, OSX
  • Server: Any host supporting sftp. MD5 hash comparision also needs md5 or md5sum installed on the server.

Installation

npm i gatsby-plugin-sftp-cache

Usage

Pass your server connection credentials, the remote cache directory and the directories you want to cache to the plugin options in your gatsby-config.js:

const { join } = require('path')

require('dotenv').config({
  path: `.env.${process.env.NODE_ENV}`
})

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    {
      resolve: `gatsby-plugin-sftp-cache`,
      options: {
        connection: {
          // All options: https://github.com/mscdex/ssh2#client-methods
          host: 'your.host.io',
          username: 'your-sft-user',
          password: process.env.SFTP_CACHE_PW
        },
        remoteDir: '/home/your-sftp-user/sftp-cache-storage/assets',
        dirsToCache: [
          // Relative to your gatsby root directory
          join('.cache'),
          join('public', 'assets'),
          join('node_modules', '.cache', 'gatsby-transformer-video')
        ],
        concurrency: 5 // Optional, defaults to 2.
      }
    }
  ]
}
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