diff --git a/content/en/hugo-pipes/introduction.md b/content/en/hugo-pipes/introduction.md index 439ff6c67..bd5bfdc4c 100755 --- a/content/en/hugo-pipes/introduction.md +++ b/content/en/hugo-pipes/introduction.md @@ -50,3 +50,15 @@ The example above can therefore also be written as follows: {{ $style := resources.Get "sass/main.scss" | toCSS | minify | fingerprint }} ``` + +### Caching + +Hugo Pipes invocations are cached based on the entire _pipe chain_. + +An example of a pipe chain is: + +```go-html-template +{{ $mainJs := resources.Get "js/main.js" | js.Build "main.js" | minify | fingerprint }} +``` + +The pipe chain is only invoked the first time it is encountered in a site build, and results are otherwise loaded from cache. As such, Hugo Pipes can be used in templates which are executed thousands or millions of times without negatively impacting the build performance.