StanchionJS

A simple & fast queue done right. backed by Redis, supports auto-reconnect, TypeScript, Promise and Rxjs.

Features

Fast. Just BLPOP and RPUSH, no other fancy stuff, simple and fast.
Auto-Reconnect.
Works with Promise. Unleash the power of async / await, say bye-bye to callback.
Better error handling.
Written in TypeScript. No hacky code and provides better experience if you are using TypeScript.
Reactive. If you don't like making promises, there're reactive APIs too, all APIs have two versions.

Installation

$ npm i stanchionjs

Examples

Initialize

const { Stanchion } = require('stanchionjs');
 
const stanchion = new Stanchion({
    redis: {
        host: '127.0.0.1',
        port: 6379,
        db: '1',
    },
    concurrency: 20,
});

How To Create a Job

const { Stanchion } = require('stanchionjs');
 
const stanchion = new Stanchion();
 
// Payload will be serialized using `JSON.stringify`
const job_1 = {
    thing: 'apple',
};
const job_2 = {
    thing: 'banana',
};
 
//
// Promise way:
//
 
stanchion.push(job_1, job_2).then(() => {
    console.log('jobs created.');
});
 
//
// Rxjs way:
//
 
stanchion.push$(job_1, job_2).subscribe(() => {
    console.log('jobs created.');
});

How To Process a Job

When a Job processing is done, you must tell StanchionJS so it can go fetching next Job for you. StanchionJS provides several ways to do that:

const { Stanchion } = require('stanchionjs');
const { Observable } = require('rxjs'); // Not required.
 
const stanchion = new Stanchion();
 
//
// Promise way:
//
 
stanchion.process(job => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    console.log('Got a job:', job);
 
    resolve();
}));
 
//
// Async / Await way:
//
 
stanchion.process(async job => {
    console.log('Got a job:', job);
});
 
//
// Rxjs way:
//
 
stanchion.process$(
    job => Observable.of(job)
        .map(job => {
            console.log('Got a job:', job);
        })
).subscribe(); // Don't forget to subscribe!

Error Handling

Every exception (including those from redis) can be obtained by attach handler to Stanchion instance:

const { Stanchion } = require('stanchionjs');
 
const stanchion = new Stanchion();
 
//
// Callback handler:
//
 
stanchion.onError(err => {
    console.log('error occurred', err);
});
 
//
// Rxjs stream:
//
 
stanchion.onError$().subscribe(err => {
    console.log('error occurred', err);
});

How To Exit

const { Stanchion } = require('stanchionjs');
 
const stanchion = new Stanchion();
 
//
// Promise way:
//
 
stanchion.shutdown().then(() => {
    console.log('Stanchion exited.');
});
 
//
// Rxjs way:
//
 
stanchion.shutdown$().subscribe(() => {
    console.log('Stanchion exited.');
});

When Exited

const { Stanchion } = require('stanchionjs');
 
const stanchion = new Stanchion();
 
//
// Promise way:
//
 
stanchion.onShutdowned(() => {
    console.log('Stanchion exited.');
});
 
//
// Rxjs way:
//
 
stanchion.onShutdowned$().subscribe(() => {
    console.log('Stanchion exited.');
});

Reference

Interfaces

ConstructOptions

Default value:

{
    // Redis configuration.
    redis: {
        host: '127.0.0.1',
        port: 6739,
    },
 
    // If you have lots of I/O intensive jobs, increase this may help.
    concurrency: 10,
    
    // Redis key for this queue.
    // Stanchion also support multiple keys, just use:
    //   rediskey: ['stanchion_queue1', 'stanchion_queue2']
    redisKey: 'stanchion_queue',
    
    // How many times you want Stanchion to try reconnecting when connection is lost.
    retryAttempts: 6,
}

Stanchion

Stanchion#constructor

constructor(options: ConstructOptions)

Stanchion#push

push(...jobs: any[]): Promise<void>

Stanchion#push$

push$(...jobs: any[]): Observable<void>

Stanchion#getSize

getSize(): Promise<number>

Stanchion#getSize$

getSize$(): Observable<number>

Stanchion#onError

onError(handler: ErrorHandler): Subscription

Stanchion#onError$

onError$(): Subject<any>

Stanchion#process

process(processor: PromiseProcessor): Promise<void>

Stanchion#process$

process$(processor: ObservableProcessor): Observable<void>

Stanchion#shutdown

shutdown(): Promise<void>

Stanchion#shutdown$

shutdown$(): Observable<void>

Stanchion#isShutdowned

isShutdowned(): boolean

Stanchion#onShutdowned

onShutdowned(cb: VoidFunction): Subscription

Stanchion#onShutdowned$

onShutdowned$(): Observable<void>

TODOs

Tests. Although Stanchion is bettle-tested, handling about 26K jobs per second.
Multiple queue (Redis key) support.
"unprocess" method.
Key-sharding support for cluster usage.

Credits

Awesome icon by Freepik, licensed under the Creative Commons BY 3.0.

Inspired by Neamar/featureless-job-queue.

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