bullmq - v5.26.1




The fastest, most reliable, Redis-based distributed queue for Node.
Carefully written for rock solid stability and atomicity.

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Used by

Some notable organizations using BullMQ:

Microsoft Vendure Datawrapper Nest
Curri Novu NoCodeDB Infisical

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, failedReason }: { 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 βœ“
Group Rate Limit βœ“
Group Support βœ“
Batches Support βœ“
Parent/Child Dependencies βœ“ βœ“
Debouncing βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Priorities βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Concurrency βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Delayed jobs βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Global events βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Rate Limiter βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Pause/Resume βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Sandboxed worker βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Repeatable jobs βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Atomic ops βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Persistence βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
UI βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“ βœ“
Optimized for Jobs / Messages Jobs / Messages Jobs / Messages Jobs Messages Jobs

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.

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