restqueue

Simple in-memory (or nedb- mysql- mongodb) queue using REST calls

Usage

Put this in server.js:

var restqueue = require('./index.js')

restqueue([
  'myqueue', 
  'anotherqueue'
], function(app, server){
  console.log("queue started at port "+process.env.PORT )
})

And then run

$ PORT=4444 node server.js

Voila: now each queue has api-endpoints. The documentation/playground can be viewed at 'http://localhost:4444/doc/#!/default'

Rest calls

$ curl -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X POST http://localhost:4444/q/myqueue --data '{"data":{"foo":"bar"}}'
{"jsonapi":{"version":"1.0"}, "errors":[], "data":{"status":"pushed"}}

$ curl -X GET http://localhost:4444/q/myqueue
{"jsonapi":{"version":"1.0"}, "errors":[], "data":{"foo":"bar"}}

Why

I tried rsmq and kue as nodejs-queues, but wondered why redisdb was needed. This is an REST + nodejs approach, simply using arrays. For a more serious distributed queue i would suggest rabbitmq, and for an single-process async queue i would suggest queue