DruxtJS 0.25.0 Adds Drupal API Caching After Nearly Three Years

Following nearly three years without a JavaScript core package release, DruxtJS introduced version 0.25.0 on 23 October 2026, adding server-side caching, request deduplication and optional schema refresh for decoupled Drupal websites. Project creator Stuart Clark detailed the improvements in a technical release post. The release gap concerns the Nuxt-based JavaScript framework, rather than its Drupal-side integration, which received updates earlier in 2026.

The update aims to reduce repeated requests between a Nuxt frontend and Drupal's JSON:API backend. According to Clark's tests on the Druxt documentation website, requests to Drupal for a warm page fell from 17 to 11. Enabling content caching reduced requests to zero on the tested warm pages, while a separate 24-page cold crawl recorded a reduction from 438 requests to 157. These figures are developer-reported results rather than independent performance benchmarks.

In production, DruxtJS caches the JSON:API index and menus when Drupal's Cache-Control headers permit it, requiring a positive cache lifetime rather than Drupal's default maximum age of zero. Caching of content responses must be enabled separately, while authenticated requests remain excluded. Cache invalidation can be triggered through Drupal, although the current implementation clears the entire DruxtJS cache rather than selectively removing affected resources. The release also introduces optional schema refresh, allowing Drupal display configuration changes to be reflected without rebuilding a server-rendered frontend after cache clearing.

Despite these improvements, DruxtJS remains dependent on Nuxt 2, which reached end of life on 30 June 2024. Clark's roadmap identifies further maintenance releases before a planned rewrite for Nuxt 4 under Druxt 2.0.0. The new caching capabilities offer potential reductions in Drupal API traffic, but performance gains depend on deployment configuration, and the unsupported frontend dependency remains a consideration for existing installations.