Is there a way to 'cache'/share a Flow? E.g. I have

flow { expensiveNetworkOperation() }

and I want to collect that flow repeatedly. What's the best way to prevent duplicating the expensiveNetworkOperation() call?

I'd use maybe

ConflatedBroadcastChannel

instead, since that caches the latest value

interesting, ill look into that. But I may have more than one value in the flow (e.g. a paginated network call)

perhaps storing the relevant data outside in variables would also suit your need, initializing it lazily in the flow block

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/issues/1261 and https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/issues/1086