# prepare-response Prepare a text resposne to be efficiently sent. This is useful when you want to completly cache a specific response in memory and handle etags and gzip. [![Build Status](https://img.shields.io/travis/ForbesLindesay/prepare-response/master.svg)](https://travis-ci.org/ForbesLindesay/prepare-response) [![Dependency Status](https://img.shields.io/gemnasium/ForbesLindesay/prepare-response.svg)](https://gemnasium.com/ForbesLindesay/prepare-response) [![NPM version](https://img.shields.io/npm/v/prepare-response.svg)](https://www.npmjs.org/package/prepare-response) ## Installation npm install prepare-response ## Usage Exports a function with the signature `prepare(body, headers)`, where body is a Buffer or String and headers is an Object. ```js var express = require('express'); var prepare = require('prepare-response'); var app = express(); var html = prepare('', {'content-type': 'html'}, { etag: true, // default: true gzip: true // default: true }); var script = prepare('alert("foo");', {'content-type': 'js', 'cache-control': '1 year'}); app.get('/', function (req, res, next) { html.send(req, res, next); }); app.get('/client.js', function (req, res, next) { script.send(req, res, next); }); ``` All headers are passed through as is, except `cache-control` and `content-type`. - `cache-control` - If you pass a number in milliseconds, or a string in the format accepted by [ms](https://www.npmjs.org/package/ms) it will be converted to the appropriate public cache header. - `content-type` - If you don't pass a valid content-type, it will be looked up using [mime](https://github.com/broofa/node-mime). ## License MIT