🛠 Tutorials

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Official FrontEnd

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• Inspect jobs, search, retry, or promote delayed jobs.
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Used by

Some notable organizations using BullMQ:

The gist

Install:

$ yarn add bullmq

Add jobs to the queue:

import { Queue } from 'bullmq';

const queue = new Queue('Paint');

queue.add('cars', { color: 'blue' });

Process the jobs in your workers:

import { Worker } from 'bullmq';

const worker = new Worker('Paint', async job => {
  if (job.name === 'cars') {
    await paintCar(job.data.color);
  }
});

Listen to jobs for completion:

import { QueueEvents } from 'bullmq';

const queueEvents = new QueueEvents('Paint');

queueEvents.on('completed', ({ jobId }) => {
  console.log('done painting');
});

queueEvents.on('failed', ({ jobId: string, failedReason: string }) => {
  console.error('error painting', failedReason);
});

This is just scratching the surface, check all the features and more in the official documentation

Feature Comparison

Since there are a few job queue solutions, here is a table comparing them:

| Feature | Bullmq-Pro | Bullmq | Bull | Kue | Bee | Agenda | | :------------------------ | :-------------: | :-------------: | :-------------: | :---: | -------- | ------ | | Backend | redis | redis | redis | redis | redis | mongo | | Observables | ✓ | | | | | | | Group Rate Limit | ✓ | | | | | | | Group Support | ✓ | | | | | | | Parent/Child Dependencies | ✓ | ✓ | | | | | | Priorities | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | | Concurrency | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | Delayed jobs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | | Global events | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | | Rate Limiter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | | | Pause/Resume | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | | Sandboxed worker | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | | | Repeatable jobs | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | | ✓ | | Atomic ops | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | | | Persistence | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | UI | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | ✓ | | Optimized for | Jobs / Messages | Jobs / Messages | Jobs / Messages | Jobs | Messages | Jobs |

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Contributing

Fork the repo, make some changes, submit a pull-request! Here is the contributing doc that has more details.

Thanks

Thanks for all the contributors that made this library possible, also a special mention to Leon van Kammen that kindly donated his npm bullmq repo.