directus-cf-cache

About

Cache and limit direct access to the data managed on your Directus instance, powered by Cloudflare Workers, Workers KV and Cloudflare Pages.

Features

• Always available API with live updates¹.
  • Origin Priority mode to serve content from your Directus instance, with fallback to the KV cache when unavailable.
  • Cache Priority mode to serve content from the KV cache, with fallback to your Directus instance when unavailable.
  • Origin Only mode to only serve content from your Directus instance.
  • Cache Only mode to only serve content from the KV cache.
• Caching of image assets.
• Automatic updating of cache upon webhook trigger.
• Preset requests to prevent user from the tampering of query parameters.
• Full support of Directus Global Query Parameters.
• Demo Vue web application to showcase functionality.

Demo

1. Head over to the Directus instance at https://cztkclnq.directus.app.

2. Login with the following credentials.

   • Email: visitor@example.com
   • Password: abcd1234

3. Create > update > delete your content.

   Permissions have been set to prevent changes to certain items.

4. Check out your updates at https://directus-cf-cache.pages.dev.

demo.mov

Cloudflare Features Used

Cloudflare Workers

Fetching and storing content into Workers KV.

Serve requests either from the origin or the KV cache.

Workers KV

Store cached content retrieved from Directus.

Cloudflare Pages

Host the demo Vue 3 web application.

Installation Guide

Fork directus-cf-cache

Create a Fork of this GitHub repository as the deployments are pushed via GitHub Actions.

Set up Cloudflare Workers

1. Sign up for a Cloudflare Workers account.
2. Copy the Account ID shown in the Workers page somewhere.
3. Copy the Subdomain shown in the Workers page somewhere.
4. Head over to KV tab, add a new namespace and copy the Namespace ID somewhere.
5. Head over to API Tokens and create a new Custom API Token with Permission of "Account/Worker Scripts/Edit".
6. Copy the API Key somewhere, you will require it later.

Set up Directus

1. If you already have a Directus instance, self-hosted or cloud, skip to point 5.
2. Sign up for a Directus Cloud account.
3. Create a new Project.
4. Check your email for the login credentials.
5. Login to your Directus instance.
6. Head over to Settings > Data Model.
7. Set up all your required collections, in the demo there are articles, projects and people.
8. Create a new collection with the following settings:
   1. Set name as cf_cache_options
   2. Check the singleton checkbox
   3. Skip the configuration of other parameters and save.
9. Click on Data Model.
10. Create a new collection with the following settings
    1. Set name as global_query_params
    2. Skip the configuration of other parameters and save.
11. Create the following fields in global_query_params:
    1. description with string type
    2. operation with string type (either list or get)
    3. collection with string type (collection names that you want to cache)
    4. key with string type (cache key to differentiate between presets)
    5. enabled with boolean
    6. query_params with json (the query that will be sent with the request)
    7. file_paths with csv (the paths containing files from the result)
    8. sort with integer to be used for sorting
12. Create the following fields in cf_cache_options:
    1. cache_mode with string (origin_priority,cache_priority,origin_only,cache_only)
    2. preset_requests with One to Many Relationship on global_query_params with a foreign key of cf_cache_option.
    3. Continue in advanced field creation mode.
    4. Click on Relationship and set the sort field as sort to enable sorting.
    5. Skip the configuration of other parameters and save.
13. Head over to Settings > Data Model
    1. Click on the kebab menu of global_query_params.
    2. Select Make Collection Hidden.
14. Head over to Settings > Webhooks
    1. Create a new webhook and give it a name.
    2. Set the URL as your Cloudflare Worker webhook endpoint.
    3. Add a new request header Secret with your secret and copy this value somewhere.
    4. Toggle all actions to be turned on (create, update, delete).
    5. Select the collections that you wish to cache including Cf Cache Options
15. Head over to Settings > Roles & Permissions
    1. Create a new role and uncheck App Access.
    2. Allow All Access for Read column of the tables you wish to cache including cf_cache_options
    3. Create a new user, enter a secure token and copy this value somewhere.
    4. Save all changes.
16. Head over to Content > Cf Cache Options and configure your required caching settings.

    Demo cf_cache_options configuration

    

    Demo preset_requests configuration

    

Set up Cloudflare Pages

1. Sign up for a Cloudflare Pages account.
2. Create a new project, selecting the fork of directus-cf-cache in your GitHub account.
3. Set the build output directory as dist.
4. Set the root directory path as app.
5. Create the following environment variables:
6. VITE_DIRECTUS_CF_CACHE_URL with your Cloudflare Worker URL such as https://directus-cf-cache.<your workers subdomain>.workers.dev.
7. After the first build is completed, pause the Automatic git deployments.
8. Add a new deploy hook, copy the Deploy hook URL somewhere.

Configure GitHub Actions

1. Open the forked GitHub project > Settings > Secrets.

2. Create the following repository secrets:

   You may refer to .env.sample for sample values.

   1. CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNTID with the Account ID.
   2. CLOUDFLARE_PAGES_WEBHOOK_URL with the Deploy hook URL.
   3. CLOUDFLARE_TOKEN with the API Key.
   4. CLOUDFLARE_ZONEID with the Zone ID, empty string unless you are using a custom domain.
   5. DIRECTUS_ACCESS_TOKEN with the token.
   6. DIRECTUS_CF_CACHE_KV with the Namespace ID.
   7. DIRECTUS_SERVER_URL with the root URL of your Directus instance.
   8. DIRECTUS_WEBHOOK_SECRET with the secret.
   9. WORKER_ROUTES with your custom domain or the workers.dev route.

3. Click on the Actions tab, manually run the workflows.

Upcoming Features

• Paging of list results to handle bigger datasets
• Integration with Cloudflare R2 for assets storage
• Utilize Directus Flows instead of Webhooks for a "push" approach
• Cache management API to manage content stored in the KV cache
• Have an idea? Open a discussion!

Developed by licitdev

Footnotes

1. Changes may take up to 60 seconds to propagate globally when the request is served from the KV cache instead of the origin https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/learning/how-kv-works ↩