Node.js queue with long polling

Question

I am looking for a library for Node.js to implement queue.
Basicaly I have a cloud system with two different REST APIs:

1. Receive inputs and write a message on a queue identified with an ID.
2. The second one is more tricky: this endpoint is called from an external client in long polling. So this API will try to read from a queue and wait untill a message arrive in the queue. Of course this endpoint has a timeout, so after 30 seconds if no message has arrived in the queue, send a response.

How can I do this in Node.js? Any suggestions? There are a lot of libraries for Node.js but I don't know which is better to use in this case.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Answer 1

I suggest you looking at this library https://github.com/Automattic/kue . It's based on redis and it's really easy to learn. Kue has a lot of features like ttl, admin, attempt, ...