Caching Your settingsFile

Adding a caching layer for settingsFile inside your application is beneficial in preventing a hit to VWO CDN for fetching settingsFile, which can save you some amount of time for every request in FullStack rendering a webpage.

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Important

Fetching settingsFIle means hitting a call to VWO CDN to fetch FullStack campaigns. Programming languages that do not offer asynchronous behavior or provision to fetch settingsFIle while starting a server must implement a caching layer to prevent unwanted delay on rendering a website.

Caching your settings file in programming languages, which support execution at the server start-time like Node.js, Python, and others, is not necessary. It can be done at the server start time and can be referenced while a request is made to the server on each route.

Each settings file represents the current state of the project. So, if you need to reflect the changes made in the VWO application, you must set a polling mechanism, which fetches the settingsFile at regular intervals and reinitializes the SDK if any change is detected with the previously saved settings. All VWO FullStack SDKs have example usage with a bare minimum server. Please refer to the following table for each SDK example.

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Important

Having a caching layer saves you time, thereby speeding up the overall user experience.

Also, check how to implement a User Storage Service for sticky variation assignments.

Usage

<?php

// Cache your settingsFile inside the session so that no new request is sent for fetching settingsFile for every hit to your server

// Unset the settingsFile data present in session whenever you need you need to get settingsFile from VWO server

if (isset($_SESSION['VWOSettingsFile'])){
  $settingsFile = $_SESSION['VWOSettingsFile'];
} else{
  $settingsFile = VWO::getSettingsFile($accountId, $sdkKey);
}