New Feature - Read data from the RAM (don't always read the file content)

I dug up a little inside the conf module code and appears to me that each get/read function call uses the fs readFileSync to get the data from the config file. If I need to constantly check for a value from the app settings it can lead to performance issues. So my approach is to copy the settings to a global variable 👎 and only use this module to write the config file when some changes occur.

Are any alternative approach to this problem or do you plan to add a feature to kinda “cache the values” and only reads the file when there are some changes?

Thank you

[samuelcarreira]

I am currently working on a alternative library to save the settings. Main highlights:

• Very lightweight (only native node modules)
• Save/Read settings to/from RAM.
• Uses fastest validation
• Setting can be shared from the main process to the renderer process
• only saves data to disk if needed (saves write cycles on SSDs)

I will post here when I publish the process

[samuelcarreira]

@sayem314 It’s only for electron

@papb the electron-store is basically a wrapper of the conf module, so the complaints are the same