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ARCHIVED MAY 2025. suggested alternative: https://github.com/bnomei/kirby-turbo

⛽️ Kirby Nitro

Nitro speeds up the loading of content in your Kirby project.

Installation

• unzip master.zip as folder site/plugins/kirby-nitro or
• git submodule add https://github.com/bnomei/kirby-nitro.git site/plugins/kirby-nitro or
• composer require bnomei/kirby-nitro

Checklist: When to use this plugin?

• You load more than 100 but less than 2000 models (pages/files/users) in a single request?
• You have less than 4000 models or 2 MB combined TXT files in your project?
• If you load less, you do not need any performance plugins apart from maybe a key-value caching helper.
• If you load more, you should consider Boost or Khulan instead.
• If you need to process multiple requests fully concurrently you should not use this plugin. But from my experience most Kirby projects do not need that.

Global & Atomic Cache

The Nitro cache is a global cache. This means that the cache is shared between all HTTP_HOST environments. This will make it behave like a single database connection.

The Nitro cache is by default an atomic cache. This means that the cache will block the cache file for the full duration of your request to maintain data consistency. This will make it behave like a database with locks.

Warning

No matter how many php-fpm workers you have, only one will be running at a time when Nitro is in atomic mode! You have been warned! But this is the only way to guarantee data consistency, and it will still be wicked fast.

Usecase

The plugin will speed up Kirby setups, loading 100-2000 page models in a single request by providing a special cache. It solves the three major performance bottlenecks in Kirby that I know of and links the cache between CLI and HTTP requests.

It does this by:

• Providing a regular file cache you can use yourself. But the cache is always fully loaded in every request and only uses a single file, which makes it wicked fast.
• Optionally you can use that cache for storing the UUID to page ID relations. So instead of loading a single file for every page model UUID resolution, the cache will have them ready instantly.
• It allows you to store the TXT content of selected page/file/user models in the cache to speed up the loading time of content.
• I uses a second cache, which will cache Dir::index results. This will skip crawling the file structure step in populating the full index from the cache until you update any page/file.

Setup

For each template you want to be cached you need to use a model to add the content cache logic using a trait.

site/models/default.php

class DefaultPage extends \Kirby\Cms\Page
{
    use \Bnomei\ModelWithNitro;
}

or

site/models/article.php

class ArticlePage extends \Kirby\Cms\Page
{
    use \Bnomei\ModelWithNitro;
}

Note

You can also use the trait for user models. File models are patched automatically.

Using the Cache

You can use the single-file-based cache of Nitro to store your own key-value pairs, just like with a regular cache in Kirby.

nitro()->cache()->set('mykey', 'value');
nitro()->cache()->set('mykey', 'value', 1);

$value = nitro()->cache()->get('mykey');
$value = nitro()->cache()->getOrSet('mykey', fn() => 'value');

The Nitro cache is a bit smarter than the default cache in Kirby. It allows you optionally provide keys as arrays, it will serialize values automatically (like Kirby fields to their ->value()) and storing a value can be canceled.

nitro()->cache()->set(['articles', $page->slug()], $page->title());

nitro()->cache()->set('test', function () {
    // ... some logic
    if($cancel) {
        throw new \Bnomei\Nitro\AbortCachingExeption();
    }
});

Warning

Since the Nitro cache is fully loaded with every request I would not advise to store too many big chunks of data (like HTML output or when having too many models in total).

Using the Cache Driver in Kirby

You can also use the singe-file-based cache of Nitro as a cache driver for Kirby. This will allow you to use it for caching of other extensions in Kirby.

Note

I would highly recommend to use the Nitro cache for Kirby's UUID cache.

site/config/config.php

return [
    // ... other options
    
    // use nitro as cache driver for storing uuids
    // instead of the default file-based cache
    'cache' => [
        'uuid' => [
            'type' => 'nitro',
        ],
    ],
    
    // example: in Lapse plugin
    'bnomei.lapse.cache' => [
        'type' => 'nitro',
    ],
];

Settings

Disclaimer

This plugin is provided "as is" with no guarantee. Use it at your own risk and always test it yourself before using it in a production environment. If you find any issues, please create a new issue.

License

MIT

It is discouraged to use this plugin in any project that promotes racism, sexism, homophobia, animal abuse, violence or any other form of hate speech.