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@ordermentum/steveo
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A Task Pub/Sub Background processing library (Task Framework for Node.js)
Steveo is a task management library that supports Kafka, SQS and Redis.
Think of it as sidekiq for node.js with support for multiple backends.
This is a Node.js module available through the npm registry.
Before installing, download and install Node.js. Node.js 12 or higher is required.
If this is a brand new project, make sure to create a package.json first with the npm init command.
Installation is done using the npm install command:
$ npm install steveo
Holds the information about the type of task. It has below methods,
Responsible for keeping the inventory of tasks & event manager. Whenever a new task is created, an entry will be added in the registry
Responsible for consuming messages,
process
method initialize group consumers and start to consume the messages. It will then call the subscribe callback set on the taskEmitting events based on success/failures
runner_receive -> Received a message
runner_complete -> Completed running the associated task
runner_failure -> Failed running the associated task
runner_connection_failure -> Error while polling for message (Kafka only)
task_send
task_success
task_failure
task_added
task_removed
producer_success
producer_failure
(async () => {
const steveo = Steveo({
kafkaConnection: process.env.KAFKA_CONNECTION,
clientId: '1234-123',
});
const example = steveo.task('example-task', async ({ name }) => {
console.log(`hello ${name}`);
});
await example.publish({ name: 'tommo' });
await example.publish({ name: 'bazza' });
await steveo.runner().process();
})();
Publish without registering a task
await steveo.publish('example-task', { name: 'Apple' });
For more details, see example
yarn install
yarn run test
On a highlevel, it works as below, Steveo has 3 main components
+-----------+ +-----------+ +-----------+
| | | | | |
PUBLISH ----->| TASK | | REGISTRY | | RUNNER |-----> RECEIVE
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
+-----------+ +-----------+ +-----------+
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A Task Pub/Sub Background processing library
The npm package @ordermentum/steveo receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, @ordermentum/steveo popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @ordermentum/steveo demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 7 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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