Refresh download pages faster after GitHub releases (5m revalidate).

Author: ProgrammerNomad

app/download/page.tsx

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ import {
 
 import { buildPageMetadata } from "@/lib/page-metadata";
 
+export const revalidate = 300;
+
 export const metadata: Metadata = buildPageMetadata({
   path: "/download",
   title: "Download",

app/page.tsx

@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ import { OpenSourceStrip } from "@/components/home/open-source-strip";
 import { ScreenshotGallery } from "@/components/screenshot-gallery";
 import { getLatestRelease, getRepoStats } from "@/lib/github";
 
+export const revalidate = 300;
+
 export default async function HomePage() {
   const [release, stats] = await Promise.all([
     getLatestRelease(),

lib/github.ts

@@ -38,9 +38,15 @@ async function ghFetch<T>(path: string, revalidate = 3600): Promise<T> {
   return res.json() as Promise<T>;
 }
 
-export async function getLatestRelease(): Promise<GitHubRelease | null> {
+/** Shorter cache on download/home so new GitHub releases show up within minutes. */
+export async function getLatestRelease(
+  revalidateSeconds = 300,
+): Promise<GitHubRelease | null> {
   try {
-    return await ghFetch<GitHubRelease>(`/repos/${GITHUB_REPO}/releases/latest`);
+    return await ghFetch<GitHubRelease>(
+      `/repos/${GITHUB_REPO}/releases/latest`,
+      revalidateSeconds,
+    );
   } catch {
     return null;
   }