I made a node.js package that does exactly this, a local cache in json with few hooks for data modification, and you can control when to update it to avoid time

I made a node.js package that does exactly this, a local cache in json with few hooks for data modification, and you can control when to update it to avoid timeouts [1] Then we used it as backens for a blog for my University team as we were already using Drive, being each entry a google docs document [2] [1] https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db [2] http://www.makersupv.com/ http://www.makersupv.com/