🕸️ Nylon Mesh

Cache Everything. Scale Instantly.

A blazing-fast edge proxy built to solve the headaches of caching for modern SSR frameworks.

Why Nylon Mesh? • Features • Quick Start • Configuration

Why Nylon Mesh?

Frameworks like Next.js, Nuxt, React (SSR), Angular, and Vue are powerful—but server-side rendering is computationally expensive. Running Node.js under heavy traffic without a dedicated caching layer leads to:

• High CPU usage and slow Time to First Byte (TTFB)
• Potential crashes under traffic spikes
• Complex custom caching logic inside your app

Nylon Mesh sits in front of your app. It intercepts HTTP requests, caches the expensive SSR-generated HTML in RAM (Tier 1) and Redis (Tier 2), and serves subsequent users instantly—dropping your backend load to near zero.

Key Features

• ⚡️ Blazing Fast: Built in Rust on top of Pingora.
• 🚀 Two-Tier Caching: Uses a lightning-fast in-memory RAM cache (Tier-1) and falls back to Redis (Tier-2).
• ⚖️ Load Balancing: Built-in support for Round Robin and Weighted routing to multiple upstream servers.
• 🛠 Zero-Code Integration: Works with any backend by just placing it in front of your existing app. No SDKs needed.
• ⚙️ Simple Configuration: Easy to set up using a single YAML file.

Installation

The fastest way to install Nylon Mesh globally is via our official installation script:

curl -fsSL https://mesh.nylon.sh/install | bash

Alternatively, you can execute the initialization directly using your favorite package manager (no installation required):

bunx nylon-mesh@latest init

pnpx nylon-mesh@latest init

npx nylon-mesh@latest init

Or you can compile and run directly from source:

cargo build --release

Initialization

If you installed Nylon Mesh globally, generate a ready-to-use configuration file in your project:

nylon-mesh init

This creates a nylon-mesh.yaml in your project folder. No code changes are required in your application.

Running the Proxy

Start by pointing the proxy at your generated config file:

cargo run --release -- start -c nylon-mesh.yaml

Traffic hitting port 3000 (default) is now being cached and routed to your backend efficiently!

Configuration Example (nylon-mesh.yaml)

listen: "0.0.0.0:3000"
upstreams:
  - "127.0.0.1:3001"
load_balancer_algo: "round_robin"
redis_url: "redis://localhost:6379"

cache:
  t1_cap: 100000 
  t1_ttl: 3 
  t2_ttl: 30
  status: [200, 404]
  content_types:
    - "text/html"

bypass:
  paths:
    - "/_next/"
    - "/api/"
  ext:
    - ".ico"
    - ".png"

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.