perf(docs): keep latest HTML at the Cloudflare edge for 1 hour - #1167
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Latest docs currently expire at the edge after 60s, so many navigations pay a 1–2s origin SSR. Lengthen CDN TTL and rely on the existing GitHub webhook Cache-Tag purge for freshness.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughDocumentation CDN caching now uses a one-hour ChangesDocumentation CDN caching
Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new edge-cache policy can also cache temporary error pages, allowing users to receive stale fallback content for up to 25 hours after a transient GitHub failure. The PR is not merge-ready until fallback responses bypass the long cache policy. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@src/utils/docs.functions.ts`:
- Line 438: Update the flow around readRepoFileOrFallback() and
setDocsCacheHeaders() to track whether fallback content was returned; send
Cloudflare-CDN-Cache-Control: no-store for fallback responses, while retaining
the existing long CDN caching policy for successfully fetched documents.
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Do not cache fallback responses with the long CDN policy.
readRepoFileOrFallback() returns temporary-unavailability content when GitHub content fails. This line applies max-age=3600 and stale-while-revalidate=86400 to that content as well. Cloudflare can then serve the error for up to 25 hours, without a GitHub push to trigger invalidation. Track whether the fallback was used and send Cloudflare-CDN-Cache-Control: no-store for fallback responses. Keep the new policy for successfully fetched documents.
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In `@src/utils/docs.functions.ts` at line 438, Update the flow around
readRepoFileOrFallback() and setDocsCacheHeaders() to track whether fallback
content was returned; send Cloudflare-CDN-Cache-Control: no-store for fallback
responses, while retaining the existing long CDN caching policy for successfully
fetched documents.
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Summary
fetchDocs) stay at the Cloudflare edge for 1 hour, then up to 24 hours stale-while-revalidateCache-Controlis unchangeddocs:<lib>:branch:<branch>on push, so library updates still invalidate that library's HTMLToday latest docs are only good at the edge for ~60–120s. After that the Worker SSRs and talks to GitHub. Production cold TTFB is 1.2–2.1s; a warm HIT is ~50–150ms. Query Overview CrUX p75 is 2.3s LCP desktop / 3.0s mobile — that matches “often a miss,” not “HTML never arrives.”
Measured on an OpenStory Workers Cache preview of this same header change (not tanstack.com's zone cache, same
Cloudflare-CDN-Cache-Controlcontract):After ~2 minutes the 60s policy was
UPDATING(SWR, still ~87ms) while 1 hour stayedHIT. SWR already hides expiry for URLs that keep getting traffic; the 1-hour TTL is for the long tail of docs URLs that currently miss.This does not cut the ~200ms client render delay after HTML arrives. It only stops most navigations from paying origin.
Test plan
Cf-Cache-Status/server-timingshows an edge HIT (cfOrigin;dur=0on the zone)Cloudflare-CDN-Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600, stale-while-revalidate=86400Cache-Tag/query/v5/...) still uses the 5-minute CDN TTLSummary by CodeRabbit