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A modern, high performance Redis client


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What is redis?

The npm package 'redis' is a Node.js client for Redis, a fast, open-source, in-memory key-value data store for use as a database, cache, message broker, and queue. The package allows Node.js applications to interact with Redis servers using an asynchronous, event-driven model.

What are redis's main functionalities?

Connecting to Redis

This code sample demonstrates how to connect to a Redis server using the redis npm package. It requires the package, creates a client, and listens for the 'connect' event to confirm the connection.

const redis = require('redis');
const client = redis.createClient();
client.on('connect', function() {
  console.log('Connected to Redis');
});

Setting and Getting Data

This code sample shows how to set a key-value pair in Redis and then retrieve the value associated with a key. The 'redis.print' callback is used to output the result of the 'set' operation.

client.set('key', 'value', redis.print);
client.get('key', function(err, reply) {
  console.log(reply); // prints 'value'
});

Working with Lists

This code sample illustrates how to work with Redis lists by pushing values to the end of a list and then retrieving the entire list.

client.rpush(['list', 'value1', 'value2'], redis.print);
client.lrange('list', 0, -1, function(err, reply) {
  console.log(reply); // prints ['value1', 'value2']
});

Publish/Subscribe

This code sample demonstrates the publish/subscribe capabilities of Redis. It creates a subscriber client that listens for messages on a channel and a publisher client that publishes a message to that channel.

const subscriber = redis.createClient();
const publisher = redis.createClient();
subscriber.on('message', function(channel, message) {
  console.log('Message: ' + message + ' on channel: ' + channel);
});
subscriber.subscribe('notification');
publisher.publish('notification', 'Hello, World!');

Transactions

This code sample shows how to use Redis transactions to execute multiple commands atomically using the 'multi' and 'exec' methods.

client.multi()
  .set('key', 'value')
  .incr('counter')
  .exec(function(err, replies) {
    console.log(replies); // prints results of all commands
  });

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Node-Redis

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node-redis is a modern, high performance Redis client for Node.js.

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Packages

NameDescription
redisDownloads Version
@redis/clientDownloads Version Docs
@redis/bloomDownloads Version Docs Redis Bloom commands
@redis/graphDownloads Version Docs Redis Graph commands
@redis/jsonDownloads Version Docs Redis JSON commands
@redis/searchDownloads Version Docs RediSearch commands
@redis/time-seriesDownloads Version Docs Redis Time-Series commands

:warning: In version 4.1.0 we moved our subpackages from @node-redis to @redis. If you're just using npm install redis, you don't need to do anything—it'll upgrade automatically. If you're using the subpackages directly, you'll need to point to the new scope (e.g. @redis/client instead of @node-redis/client).

Installation

Start a redis via docker:

docker run -p 6379:6379 -it redis/redis-stack-server:latest

To install node-redis, simply:

npm install redis

:warning: The new interface is clean and cool, but if you have an existing codebase, you'll want to read the migration guide.

Looking for a high-level library to handle object mapping? See redis-om-node!

Usage

Basic Example

import { createClient } from 'redis';

const client = await createClient()
  .on('error', err => console.log('Redis Client Error', err))
  .connect();

await client.set('key', 'value');
const value = await client.get('key');
await client.disconnect();

The above code connects to localhost on port 6379. To connect to a different host or port, use a connection string in the format redis[s]://[[username][:password]@][host][:port][/db-number]:

createClient({
  url: 'redis://alice:foobared@awesome.redis.server:6380'
});

You can also use discrete parameters, UNIX sockets, and even TLS to connect. Details can be found in the client configuration guide.

To check if the the client is connected and ready to send commands, use client.isReady which returns a boolean. client.isOpen is also available. This returns true when the client's underlying socket is open, and false when it isn't (for example when the client is still connecting or reconnecting after a network error).

Redis Commands

There is built-in support for all of the out-of-the-box Redis commands. They are exposed using the raw Redis command names (HSET, HGETALL, etc.) and a friendlier camel-cased version (hSet, hGetAll, etc.):

// raw Redis commands
await client.HSET('key', 'field', 'value');
await client.HGETALL('key');

// friendly JavaScript commands
await client.hSet('key', 'field', 'value');
await client.hGetAll('key');

Modifiers to commands are specified using a JavaScript object:

await client.set('key', 'value', {
  EX: 10,
  NX: true
});

Replies will be transformed into useful data structures:

await client.hGetAll('key'); // { field1: 'value1', field2: 'value2' }
await client.hVals('key'); // ['value1', 'value2']

Buffers are supported as well:

await client.hSet('key', 'field', Buffer.from('value')); // 'OK'
await client.hGetAll(
  commandOptions({ returnBuffers: true }),
  'key'
); // { field: <Buffer 76 61 6c 75 65> }

Unsupported Redis Commands

If you want to run commands and/or use arguments that Node Redis doesn't know about (yet!) use .sendCommand():

await client.sendCommand(['SET', 'key', 'value', 'NX']); // 'OK'

await client.sendCommand(['HGETALL', 'key']); // ['key1', 'field1', 'key2', 'field2']

Transactions (Multi/Exec)

Start a transaction by calling .multi(), then chaining your commands. When you're done, call .exec() and you'll get an array back with your results:

await client.set('another-key', 'another-value');

const [setKeyReply, otherKeyValue] = await client
  .multi()
  .set('key', 'value')
  .get('another-key')
  .exec(); // ['OK', 'another-value']

You can also watch keys by calling .watch(). Your transaction will abort if any of the watched keys change.

To dig deeper into transactions, check out the Isolated Execution Guide.

Blocking Commands

Any command can be run on a new connection by specifying the isolated option. The newly created connection is closed when the command's Promise is fulfilled.

This pattern works especially well for blocking commands—such as BLPOP and BLMOVE:

import { commandOptions } from 'redis';

const blPopPromise = client.blPop(
  commandOptions({ isolated: true }),
  'key',
  0
);

await client.lPush('key', ['1', '2']);

await blPopPromise; // '2'

To learn more about isolated execution, check out the guide.

Pub/Sub

See the Pub/Sub overview.

Scan Iterator

SCAN results can be looped over using async iterators:

for await (const key of client.scanIterator()) {
  // use the key!
  await client.get(key);
}

This works with HSCAN, SSCAN, and ZSCAN too:

for await (const { field, value } of client.hScanIterator('hash')) {}
for await (const member of client.sScanIterator('set')) {}
for await (const { score, value } of client.zScanIterator('sorted-set')) {}

You can override the default options by providing a configuration object:

client.scanIterator({
  TYPE: 'string', // `SCAN` only
  MATCH: 'patter*',
  COUNT: 100
});

Programmability

Redis provides a programming interface allowing code execution on the redis server.

Functions

The following example retrieves a key in redis, returning the value of the key, incremented by an integer. For example, if your key foo has the value 17 and we run add('foo', 25), it returns the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.

#!lua name=library

redis.register_function {
  function_name = 'add',
  callback = function(keys, args) return redis.call('GET', keys[1]) + args[1] end,
  flags = { 'no-writes' }
}

Here is the same example, but in a format that can be pasted into the redis-cli.

FUNCTION LOAD "#!lua name=library\nredis.register_function{function_name=\"add\", callback=function(keys, args) return redis.call('GET', keys[1])+args[1] end, flags={\"no-writes\"}}"

Load the prior redis function on the redis server before running the example below.

import { createClient } from 'redis';

const client = createClient({
  functions: {
    library: {
      add: {
        NUMBER_OF_KEYS: 1,
        transformArguments(key: string, toAdd: number): Array<string> {
          return [key, toAdd.toString()];
        },
        transformReply(reply: number): number {
          return reply;
        }
      }
    }
  }
});

await client.connect();

await client.set('key', '1');
await client.library.add('key', 2); // 3
Lua Scripts

The following is an end-to-end example of the prior concept.

import { createClient, defineScript } from 'redis';

const client = createClient({
  scripts: {
    add: defineScript({
      NUMBER_OF_KEYS: 1,
      SCRIPT:
        'return redis.call("GET", KEYS[1]) + ARGV[1];',
      transformArguments(key: string, toAdd: number): Array<string> {
        return [key, toAdd.toString()];
      },
      transformReply(reply: number): number {
        return reply;
      }
    })
  }
});

await client.connect();

await client.set('key', '1');
await client.add('key', 2); // 3

Disconnecting

There are two functions that disconnect a client from the Redis server. In most scenarios you should use .quit() to ensure that pending commands are sent to Redis before closing a connection.

.QUIT()/.quit()

Gracefully close a client's connection to Redis, by sending the QUIT command to the server. Before quitting, the client executes any remaining commands in its queue, and will receive replies from Redis for each of them.

const [ping, get, quit] = await Promise.all([
  client.ping(),
  client.get('key'),
  client.quit()
]); // ['PONG', null, 'OK']

try {
  await client.get('key');
} catch (err) {
  // ClosedClient Error
}
.disconnect()

Forcibly close a client's connection to Redis immediately. Calling disconnect will not send further pending commands to the Redis server, or wait for or parse outstanding responses.

await client.disconnect();

Auto-Pipelining

Node Redis will automatically pipeline requests that are made during the same "tick".

client.set('Tm9kZSBSZWRpcw==', 'users:1');
client.sAdd('users:1:tokens', 'Tm9kZSBSZWRpcw==');

Of course, if you don't do something with your Promises you're certain to get unhandled Promise exceptions. To take advantage of auto-pipelining and handle your Promises, use Promise.all().

await Promise.all([
  client.set('Tm9kZSBSZWRpcw==', 'users:1'),
  client.sAdd('users:1:tokens', 'Tm9kZSBSZWRpcw==')
]);

Clustering

Check out the Clustering Guide when using Node Redis to connect to a Redis Cluster.

Events

The Node Redis client class is an Nodejs EventEmitter and it emits an event each time the network status changes:

NameWhenListener arguments
connectInitiating a connection to the serverNo arguments
readyClient is ready to useNo arguments
endConnection has been closed (via .quit() or .disconnect())No arguments
errorAn error has occurred—usually a network issue such as "Socket closed unexpectedly"(error: Error)
reconnectingClient is trying to reconnect to the serverNo arguments
sharded-channel-movedSee hereSee here

:warning: You MUST listen to error events. If a client doesn't have at least one error listener registered and an error occurs, that error will be thrown and the Node.js process will exit. See the EventEmitter docs for more details.

The client will not emit any other events beyond those listed above.

Supported Redis versions

Node Redis is supported with the following versions of Redis:

VersionSupported
7.0.z:heavy_check_mark:
6.2.z:heavy_check_mark:
6.0.z:heavy_check_mark:
5.0.z:heavy_check_mark:
< 5.0:x:

Node Redis should work with older versions of Redis, but it is not fully tested and we cannot offer support.

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute, check out the contributing guide.

Thank you to all the people who already contributed to Node Redis!

Contributors

License

This repository is licensed under the "MIT" license. See LICENSE.

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Last updated on 05 Feb 2024

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