As far as I know bahmutov/npm-install uses the @actions/cache under the hood so the cache retrieval itself should be the same as github actions cache.
But the other steps might still take longer as it doesn't cache the node_modules, like this post suggest as an improvement. So if that's what you compared to I'd expect different results!
As also mentioned in the post the "official" recommendation is to not cache the node_modules folder itself, as that can potentially cause trouble in some scenarios. You can probably avoid those by putting for example the node version in your cache key or so.
Recommend taking a look at github.com/bahmutov/npm-install :) tried to make this effortless!
I tried bahmutov/npm-install and it took much longer to retrieve cache compared to that of actions/cache.
So, please keep in mind node_modules size when choose one. :)
As far as I know
bahmutov/npm-installuses the@actions/cacheunder the hood so the cache retrieval itself should be the same as github actions cache.But the other steps might still take longer as it doesn't cache the
node_modules, like this post suggest as an improvement. So if that's what you compared to I'd expect different results!As also mentioned in the post the "official" recommendation is to not cache the
node_modulesfolder itself, as that can potentially cause trouble in some scenarios. You can probably avoid those by putting for example the node version in your cache key or so.github.com/actions/cache/blob/main...
That said I also wish it was a bit faster 😅