Suggestions: no-page-cache route middleware and PAGE_CACHE_ENABLED env variable

[bridgeport]

Thanks for this package. Three suggestions:

1) Add a PAGE_CACHE_ENABLED environment variable with supporting config file that checks for this. This allows the cache to be turned on and off instead of having to comment out the reference in Kernel.php

2) You have a page-cache route middleware, but how about doing the inverse: a no-page-cache middleware? This'll allow an individual route(s) to be excluded easily while caching everything else by default.

3) Regex cache clearing. Right now, an individual slug can be cleared:

php artisan page-cache:clear {slug}

But what about extending it to clear a directory, like so:

php artisan page-cache:clear country/canada/*

Or just clearing anything that matches:

php artisan page-cache:clear country/canad*

If full-blown regex is too much work to do, at least supporting the asterisk seems to be a reasonable middle ground.

Thanks.

[KodeStar]

There is already a PR that was submitted nearly a month ago that will recursively delete a directory, just waiting for it to be merged. https://github.com/JosephSilber/page-cache/pull/58

[JosephSilber]

• You can use Laravel's withoutMiddleware on your route, to exclude it from caching:

  Route::get('/', 'HomeController@index')->withoutMiddleware('page-cache');

• To clear a full resource, use the new --recursive flag.