Window: caches property
Baseline
Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since April 2018.
Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.
The caches read-only property of the Window interface returns the CacheStorage object associated with the current context.
This object enables functionality such as storing assets for offline use, and generating custom responses to requests.
Value
A CacheStorage object.
Examples
The following example shows how a window can retrieve cached data.
js
caches.open("v1").then((cache) => cache.match("/list"));
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