Connection to Redis

bullmq: v1.0.1

I’m not sure how to pass the redis connection. I tried different opts like from the doc (https://docs.bullmq.io/guide/connections) but it either crash with error or connects to 127.0.0.1 am I doing something wrong ?

const IORedis = require('ioredis');

const queue = new Queue('myqueue', new IORedis(process.env.REDIS_URL));
const queueEvents = new QueueEvents('myqueueevents', new IORedis(process.env.REDIS_URL));

const worker = new Worker('myworker', async job => { ... }, new IORedis(process.env.REDIS_URL));

[lewispham]

I think the docs should mention that QueueEvents and Worker does not reuse connections passed into Queue. So you need to pass the initialized connection to all QueueEvents, Worker and Queue if you want to reuse it. This behavior is actually quite weird imho. Shouldn’t QueueEvents and Worker reuse the connection passed into Queue by default? New connections could be internally created but their configurations should be reused right?

[dan003400]

Is there any reason connection does not accept just a redis connection string without the need of importing ioredis?

This seems very odd that you can pass in host / port but not only a string with full connection string…