Remove compression from Express, add CacheHeaders middleware.

Signed-off-by: Fred Boniface <fred@fjla.uk>

app.js

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 // OwlBoard - © Fred Boniface 2022-2023 - Licensed under GPLv3 (or later)
 
+import { setCacheHeaders } from "./src/middlewares/setHeaders.middlewares";
+
 // Please see the included LICENSE file
 
 const mode = process.env.NODE_ENV || "development";
@@ -13,7 +15,6 @@ const express = require("express");
 const app = express();
 
 // Middleware
-const compression = require("compression");
 const rateLimit = require("express-rate-limit");
 const cors = require("cors");
 const authenticate = require("./src/middlewares/auth.middlewares");
@@ -52,14 +53,13 @@ app.use((err, req, res, next) => {
   return;
 });
 
-// Global Middleware:
+// Pre Middleware:
 app.use(
   cors({
     origin: "*", //[/\.owlboard\.info$/, 'localhost:5173', 'localhost:4173']
   })
 );
 app.use(express.json()); //JSON Parsing for POST Requests
-app.use(compression()); // Compress API Data if supported by client
 //app.use(limiter);
 app.use(authenticate);
 
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ app.use("/api/v1/auth/test", authenticate, (req, res) =>
   })
 ); // Returns 401 if auth failed, 200 if successful.
 
+// Post middleware
+app.use(setCacheHeaders)
+
 // Number of proxies:
 app.set("trust proxy", 4);
 mode === "development"

src/middlewares/setHeaders.middlewares.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+import { NextFunction, Request, Response } from "express";
+
+export function setCacheHeaders(req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) {
+  if (res.cacheType && res.cacheSecs) {
+    const cacheCtlHeader = `${res.cacheType}, max-age=${res.cacheSecs}`;
+    res.setHeader('Cache-Control', cacheCtlHeader)
+  }
+
+  res.send();
+}

src/types/index.d.ts

@@ -8,5 +8,10 @@ declare global {
     export interface Request {
       isAuthed: boolean;
     }
+
+    export interface Response {
+      cacheType: string;
+      cacheSecs: number;
+    }
   }
 }