Automated Garbage Collection

[kurtextrem]

Hi, does the data-client implement any sort of automated garbage collection? I've seen that we can call clear (NetworkManager) or cleanup (SubscriptionManager), but I didn't find anything similar to e.g. "after 5min of the data being unused, remove it from cache".
I assume it is thus expected that this is done by userland, not the library, right?

[ntucker]

The quick answer, is yes, nothing is built-in for the store.

There is an action you can send that does GC for user-land implementations (https://github.com/reactive/data-client/blob/master/packages/core/src/state/reducer/createReducer.ts#L27)

Keep in mind the denormalization cache is garbage collected automatically by the javascript engine, as it is 100% WeakMaps.

We're open to design for good generalizable solutions as well as re-prioritization based on need. So far there hasn't been much demand for it, so we've focused on other things.