Future of kue
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Description
Hi everybody,
I use `kue` in various projects for French government.
I open this issue because I need a bit of visibility on the maintenance and the next evolutions.
Some points:
* @behrad is announcing a `v1` since more than one year. As I can see on the `v1` branch, it is still a WIP. It blocks any ambitious PR. How can we help to target a quick release?
* Parts of the library are staled (UI, API).
* Other similar projects (as https://github.com/agenda/agenda) are pretty active.
I have the feeling that the actual kue is too big to be efficiently embedded in high-level libraries, and a bit too small to cover advanced use cases.
In the past I slightly modified `kue` and published `kue-lite` for our internal usage, and we are now working on a wrapper around `kue` which support job unicity, promises, add advanced logging, job configuration with YAML or JSON file and out-of-the-box jobs worker. Maybe some of these features would have their place in `kue`.
It could be interesting to have a package `kue-core` with just the logic and connection to Redis, and a full-featured kue with JSON API and UI. And why not `kue-ui`, `kue-websocket`, `kue-api`, `kue-webhooks`…
Feel free to discuss my position ;)
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Research direction
The issue names the v1 branch and the existing UI/API, so begin by reviewing those and the current kue structure. Its proposed kue-core and companion packages are architectural options rather than a defined task; done is not specified and would require a maintainer decision.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, node.js, redis
- Domain
- api, backend, distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 15/100