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Easy Cloudflare edge caching for Laravel apps:

Middleware that sets safe Cache-Control headers for public pages
Purge one URL, many URLs, or an entire zone (sync or queued)
Optional warming after purge
Model trait to purge when Filament / Eloquent content changes

Designed for brochure/marketing sites behind Cloudflare — including Laravel Cloud’s Cloudflare edge when you manage the zone yourself for per-URL purge.

Installation

composer require nckrtl/cloudflare-cache

Publish config (optional):

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=cloudflare-cache-config

Environment

CLOUDFLARE_CACHE_ENABLED=true
CLOUDFLARE_CACHE_ENVIRONMENTS=production,staging

CLOUDFLARE_ZONE_ID=your-zone-id
CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN=your-scoped-token

# Optional
CLOUDFLARE_API_BASE_URL=https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4

CLOUDFLARE_CACHE_S_MAXAGE=3600
CLOUDFLARE_CACHE_MAX_AGE=0
# 0 disables stale serving — keep at 0 unless you've weighed how long a poisoned
# or broken response could stay servable at the edge before purge/re-fetch.
CLOUDFLARE_CACHE_STALE_WHILE_REVALIDATE=0
CLOUDFLARE_CACHE_STALE_IF_ERROR=0

CLOUDFLARE_CACHE_QUEUE=
CLOUDFLARE_CACHE_PURGE_ASYNC=true
# Soft-fail (log instead of throw) when credentials are missing or the API call fails.
CLOUDFLARE_CACHE_SOFT_FAIL=true

CLOUDFLARE_CACHE_WARM_ENABLED=true
CLOUDFLARE_CACHE_WARM_AFTER_PURGE=false
CLOUDFLARE_CACHE_WARM_TIMEOUT=15
CLOUDFLARE_CACHE_WARM_USER_AGENT="Nckrtl-CloudflareCache/1.0 (+https://github.com/nckrtl/cloudflare-cache)"

Create a Cloudflare API token with Zone → Cache Purge limited to the site zone.

Cacheable routes (critical)

Cloudflare will not cache responses that set cookies. Do not put this middleware only on the default web stack.

With Waymaker (recommended)

Keep a single Waymaker-generated routes file. Opt pages into a cookie-free stack with a middleware group:

// bootstrap/app.php
use NckRtl\CloudflareCache\Support\StaticMiddleware;
use NckRtl\Waymaker\Facades\Waymaker;

return Application::configure(basePath: dirname(__DIR__))
    ->withRouting(
        web: __DIR__.'/../routes/web.php', // optional non-Waymaker web routes
        commands: __DIR__.'/../routes/console.php',
        health: '/up',
        then: function () {
            // Load Waymaker outside the forced `web` wrapper so `static` is top-level
            Waymaker::routes();
        },
    )
    ->withMiddleware(function (Middleware $middleware) {
        $middleware->group('static', StaticMiddleware::defaults([
            \App\Http\Middleware\HandleInertiaRequests::class,
            // CSP / other cookie-free middleware…
        ]));
    })
    ->create();

// app/Http/Controllers/ProjectsController.php
use NckRtl\Waymaker\Get;

class ProjectsController extends Controller
{
    public static string $middlewareGroup = 'static';

    #[Get(uri: '/', name: 'projects')]
    public function index(): Response { ... }
}

Per-route override (same controller can mix groups):

#[Get(uri: '/pricing', name: 'pricing', middlewareGroup: 'static')]
public function pricing(): Response { ... }

#[Get(uri: '/account', name: 'account', middlewareGroup: 'web', middleware: 'auth')]
public function account(): Response { ... }

StaticMiddleware::defaults() is:

SubstituteBindings
Your $before stack (Inertia share, etc.)
CacheResponse (this package)
Your $after stack

Requires Waymaker with middlewareGroup support (see Waymaker changelog / docs).

Without Waymaker

Alias is also registered for classic routes:

Route::middleware('static')->group(function () {
    Route::get('/privacy', ...)->name('privacy');
});

// or
Route::get('/pricing', ...)->middleware('cloudflare.cache:86400');

Default headers:

Cache-Control: public, max-age=0, s-maxage=3600, stale-while-revalidate=0, stale-if-error=0

Middleware skips: non-GET, non-2xx, authenticated users, requests with an active session (web group), Set-Cookie responses, disabled env / package.

Cloudflare dashboard

For HTML to be eligible, ensure a Cache Everything (or equivalent) rule with Browser TTL: Respect Origin and Edge TTL: Use cache-control header from origin (Respect Origin). Without the Edge TTL setting, Cloudflare may ignore s-maxage and fall back to its own default. Static extensions are cached by Cloudflare by default.

Inertia + SSR (Cloudflare only)

Document visits and Inertia navigations share the same URL:

Request	Expects	Edge cache
Full page load	SSR HTML	Yes — `public, s-maxage=…`
Inertia XHR (`X-Inertia: true`)	JSON	No — `private, no-store`

Cloudflare free/pro does not vary the cache key on X-Inertia. Relying on Vary alone will serve HTML to Inertia navigations — store-side headers alone aren't enough either, so you also need lookup-side Cache Rules on a zone that actually proxies traffic.

This package:

Edge-caches document visits only
Forces private, no-store when X-Inertia is present
Still sets Vary: Accept-Encoding, X-Inertia for correctness elsewhere

Required Cloudflare Cache Rules

Create two Cache Rules, in this order:

Bypass Cache when it's an Inertia navigation:

any(http.request.headers["x-inertia"][*] == "true")

Cache Everything for other eligible GETs (the document HTML), with:
- Browser TTL: Respect Origin
- Edge TTL: Use cache-control header from origin (Respect Origin)
The Edge TTL setting matters — without it Cloudflare may ignore s-maxage from this package's headers and fall back to its own default Edge TTL instead.

not len(http.request.headers["x-inertia"]) > 0 is not a valid substitute for rule 1 — len() does not operate on an array-valued header field and won't validate.

DNS for the site must be proxied (orange cloud) on that zone. Grey-cloud DNS (DNS only) means your Cache Rules never run — traffic hits Laravel Cloud’s managed edge instead, which cannot set per-header bypass rules.

Warming fetches document HTML only (no X-Inertia header).

There is no second origin cache in this package — only Cloudflare edge headers, purge, and warm.

Purge

use NckRtl\CloudflareCache\Facades\CloudflareCache;

CloudflareCache::purge('https://example.com/');
CloudflareCache::purge([
    'https://example.com/',
    'https://example.com/projecten/sion',
]);

// Sync (CLI / tests)
CloudflareCache::purge($urls, async: false);

// Purge then warm
CloudflareCache::purge($urls, warm: true);

// Whole zone
CloudflareCache::purgeEverything();

Eloquent / Filament

use NckRtl\CloudflareCache\Concerns\PurgesCloudflareCache;
use NckRtl\CloudflareCache\Contracts\PurgesCloudflareUrls;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class PortfolioItem extends Model implements PurgesCloudflareUrls
{
    use PurgesCloudflareCache;

    public function cloudflareCacheUrls(): array
    {
        return array_values(array_filter([
            route('projects', absolute: true),
            route('portfolio-item', $this->slug, absolute: true),
            $this->wasChanged('slug')
                ? route('portfolio-item', $this->getOriginal('slug'), absolute: true)
                : null,
        ]));
    }
}

Or call from Filament:

protected function afterSave(): void
{
    CloudflareCache::purge($this->record, warm: true);
}

Artisan

php artisan cloudflare-cache:purge https://example.com/ https://example.com/studio
php artisan cloudflare-cache:purge --all --sync
php artisan cloudflare-cache:purge https://example.com/ --sync --warm

php artisan cloudflare-cache:warm https://example.com/ --sync

Warming

Off after purge by default (CLOUDFLARE_CACHE_WARM_AFTER_PURGE=false). Enable per call with warm: true, or set the env flag globally. Warming issues cookie-less GET requests so the edge can re-fill quickly after invalidation.

Laravel Cloud note

Laravel Cloud’s built-in edge purge API clears the whole environment. This package targets your Cloudflare zone for precise URL purge (Filament saves). Use both: deploy purge from Cloud, content purge from this package.

If the custom domain is DNS-only to Laravel Cloud, HTML may still be edge-cached by Cloud’s Cloudflare when you send public, s-maxage. Without Cache Rules you control, Inertia navigations will get that HTML — either orange-cloud through your zone with the rules above, or stop sharing HTML at the edge (private) for those pages.

Testing

composer test:unit
composer test

License

MIT

nckrtl / cloudflare-cache

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