Change default cache directory

README.md

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ module.exports = {
 | :-------------------: | :----------------------------------------------: | :---------------------------------------------: | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
 |  **`cacheContext`**   |                    `{String}`                    |                   `undefined`                   | Allows you to override the default cache context in order to generate the cache relatively to a path. By default it will use absolute paths                            |
 |    **`cacheKey`**     |    `{Function(options, request) -> {String}}`    |                   `undefined`                   | Allows you to override default cache key generator                                                                                                                     |
-| **`cacheDirectory`**  |                    `{String}`                    |         `path.resolve('./node_modules/.cache/.cache-loader')`         | Provide a cache directory where cache items should be stored (used for default read/write implementation)                                                              |
+| **`cacheDirectory`**  |                    `{String}`                    |         `findCacheDir({ name: 'cache-loader' }) or os.tmpdir()`         | Provide a cache directory where cache items should be stored (used for default read/write implementation)                                                              |
 | **`cacheIdentifier`** |                    `{String}`                    | `cache-loader:{version} {process.env.NODE_ENV}` | Provide an invalidation identifier which is used to generate the hashes. You can use it for extra dependencies of loaders (used for default read/write implementation) |
 |      **`write`**      | `{Function(cacheKey, data, callback) -> {void}}` |                   `undefined`                   | Allows you to override default write cache data to file (e.g. Redis, memcached)                                                                                        |
 |      **`read`**       |    `{Function(cacheKey, callback) -> {void}}`    |                   `undefined`                   | Allows you to override default read cache data from file                                                                                                               |

package.json

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
     "webpack": "^4.0.0"
   },
   "dependencies": {
+    "find-cache-dir": "^2.1.0",
     "loader-utils": "^1.1.0",
     "mkdirp": "^0.5.1",
     "neo-async": "^2.6.0",

src/index.js

@@ -2,11 +2,13 @@
   import/order
 */
 const fs = require('fs');
+const os = require('os');
 const path = require('path');
 const normalizePath = require('normalize-path');
 const async = require('neo-async');
 const crypto = require('crypto');
 const mkdirp = require('mkdirp');
+const findCacheDir = require('find-cache-dir');
 
 const { getOptions } = require('loader-utils');
 const validateOptions = require('schema-utils');
@@ -19,7 +21,7 @@ const schema = require('./options.json');
 
 const defaults = {
   cacheContext: '',
-  cacheDirectory: path.resolve('./node_modules/.cache/.cache-loader'),
+  cacheDirectory: findCacheDir({ name: 'cache-loader' }) || os.tmpdir(),
   cacheIdentifier: `cache-loader:${pkg.version} ${env}`,
   cacheKey,
   read,