retick

retick

Redis based task scheduler.

Installation

Config

See lib/spec.js https://github.com/evanx/retick/blob/master/lib/spec.js

Implementation

See lib/main.js https://github.com/evanx/retick/blob/master/lib/main.js

Application archetype

Uses application archetype: https://github.com/evanx/redis-app

See lib/index.js https://github.com/evanx/retick/blob/master/lib/index.js

require('redis-app')(
    require('../package'),
    require('./spec'),
    async deps => Object.assign(global, deps),
    () => require('./main')
).catch(err => {
    console.error(err);
});

where the config is extracted from the spec defaults and process.env overrides. We choose to set config et al on global before main is invoked.

Docker

See Dockerfile https://github.com/evanx/retick/blob/master/Dockerfile

FROM mhart/alpine-node:latest
ADD package.json .
RUN npm install --silent
ADD lib lib
ENV NODE_ENV production
CMD ["node", "--harmony", "lib/index.js"]

We can build as follows:

docker build -t retick https://github.com/evanx/retick.git

where tagged as image retick

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