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🍿 Cache Expensive Runtime API Calls

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🍿 Weekly Snack: Cache Expensive Runtime API calls

Just a reminder, "use-cache" is a Next.js 16 feature lets you mark a component, function or a Page as cacheable.

If your component becomes dynamic because you called connection(), cookies(), or headers()… regular "use cache" won't work i.e. you won't be able to cache your API call even though it is expensive.

You need to use "use cache: remote" instead when you are caching in a Dynamic Context.

Now, There is more to caching though in Next.js.

There are 3 flavours of caching.

→ use cache: allows you to mark a route, React component, or a function as cacheable
​→ use cache: private: allows you to use runtime APIs like cookies, headers, or search params and cache them
​→ use cache: remote: enables caching of shared data in dynamic contexts (just covered)

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