Let's talk about our understanding of Vue's built-in component keep-alive

2. Usage scenarios

keepalive

Homepage–>List page–>Business details page–>. At this time, the list page should need to keep-alive

homepage–>list page–>Business details page–>Return to the list page (requires caching)–>Return to homepage (requires caching)–>Enter the list again page (no need to cache), at this time you can control the keep-alivekeepAlive

{
  path: 'list',
  name: 'itemList', // 列表页
  component (resolve) {
    require(['@/pages/item/list'], resolve)
 },
 meta: {
  keepAlive: true,
  title: '列表页'
 }
}

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<div id="app" class=&#39;wrapper&#39;>
    <keep-alive>
        <!-- 需要缓存的视图组件 --> 
        <router-view v-if="$route.meta.keepAlive"></router-view>
     </keep-alive>
      <!-- 不需要缓存的视图组件 -->
     <router-view v-if="!$route.meta.keepAlive"></router-view>
</div>

3. Principle Analysis

keep-alivevue

export default {
  name: 'keep-alive',
  abstract: true,

  props: {
    include: [String, RegExp, Array],
    exclude: [String, RegExp, Array],
    max: [String, Number]
  },

  created () {
    this.cache = Object.create(null)
    this.keys = []
  },

  destroyed () {
    for (const key in this.cache) {
      pruneCacheEntry(this.cache, key, this.keys)
    }
  },

  mounted () {
    this.$watch('include', val => {
      pruneCache(this, name => matches(val, name))
    })
    this.$watch('exclude', val => {
      pruneCache(this, name => !matches(val, name))
    })
  },

  render() {
    /* 获取默认插槽中的第一个组件节点 */
    const slot = this.$slots.default
    const vnode = getFirstComponentChild(slot)
    /* 获取该组件节点的componentOptions */
    const componentOptions = vnode && vnode.componentOptions

    if (componentOptions) {
      /* 获取该组件节点的名称，优先获取组件的name字段，如果name不存在则获取组件的tag */
      const name = getComponentName(componentOptions)

      const { include, exclude } = this
      /* 如果name不在inlcude中或者存在于exlude中则表示不缓存，直接返回vnode */
      if (
        (include && (!name || !matches(include, name))) ||
        // excluded
        (exclude && name && matches(exclude, name))
      ) {
        return vnode
      }

      const { cache, keys } = this
      /* 获取组件的key值 */
      const key = vnode.key == null
        // same constructor may get registered as different local components
        // so cid alone is not enough (#3269)
        ? componentOptions.Ctor.cid + (componentOptions.tag ? `::${componentOptions.tag}` : '')
        : vnode.key
     /*  拿到key值后去this.cache对象中去寻找是否有该值，如果有则表示该组件有缓存，即命中缓存 */
      if (cache[key]) {
        vnode.componentInstance = cache[key].componentInstance
        // make current key freshest
        remove(keys, key)
        keys.push(key)
      }
        /* 如果没有命中缓存，则将其设置进缓存 */
        else {
        cache[key] = vnode
        keys.push(key)
        // prune oldest entry
        /* 如果配置了max并且缓存的长度超过了this.max，则从缓存中删除第一个 */
        if (this.max && keys.length > parseInt(this.max)) {
          pruneCacheEntry(cache, keys[0], keys, this._vnode)
        }
      }

      vnode.data.keepAlive = true
    }
    return vnode || (slot && slot[0])
  }
}

templaterender, which will automatically execute the render

this.cache

this.cache = {
    'key1':'组件1',
    'key2':'组件2',
    // ...
}

pruneCacheEntryfunction

function pruneCacheEntry (
  cache: VNodeCache,
  key: string,
  keys: Array<string>,
  current?: VNode
) {
  const cached = cache[key]
  /* 判断当前没有处于被渲染状态的组件，将其销毁*/
  if (cached && (!current || cached.tag !== current.tag)) {
    cached.componentInstance.$destroy()
  }
  cache[key] = null
  remove(keys, key)
}