Save Money With NextJS Caching

Wednesday, Dec 10, 2025

Cache Life Works in lib functions

I had an issue where the app was making a lot of calls every time I changed pages then I add the cachelife function from cachecomponents and it stopped calling it as much. I'm still waiting for it to update, Hopefully I'll figure out the best way to cache to save money but also update regularly.

Here's the function that I used to cache in NextJS

import {cacheLife} from "next/cache";


'use cache'
cacheLife('days')

This function has to be used inside of a function to cache the function results. Sometimes caching will make some weird errors if the function returns something from server to client, but you'll just have to experiment a bit with it when you try to implement.