Toureiro

A graphical monitoring interface for the distributed job queue bull built using express and react. Toureiro provides simple monitoring features as well as the ability to promote delayed jobs directly.

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Get Started

First install toureiro from npm.

npm install toureiro

You can then use toureiro in your project. The constructor toureiro() will return an express app, which you can then have it listen to any port you desire:

var toureiro = require('toureiro');
var app = toureiro();
var server = app.listen(3000, function() {
  console.log('Toureiro is now listening at port 3000...');
});

Or you can mount it to a subpath for your own express server:

var express = require('express');
var toureiro = require('toureiro');

var app = express();
/**
 * Your own setup...
 */
app.use('/toureiro', toureiro());

var server = app.listen(8080);

You can also run toureiro as a standalone program:

> toureiro
Toureiro is now listening at port 3000...

Config

By default, toureiro will try to connect to the redis db #0 at 127.0.0.1:6379, but you can configure it yourself:

var app = toureiro({
  // Options to be passed directly to redis.createClient(),
  // see https://github.com/NodeRedis/node_redis#rediscreateclient
  redis: {
    // Redis host
    host: '127.0.0.1',
    // Port
    port: 6379
    // DB number
    db: 1
    // Other redis options...
  }
});

Usage

You can invoke toureiro --help to see usage instructions:

Usage: toureiro [port]
[port]         Port for toureiro to listen to
Options:
--rh           Redis host, default to 127.0.0.1
--rp           Redis port, default to 6379
--rdb          Redis database number, default to 0
--pass         Redis password, default to null

Development

gulp dev: Starts a test server for port 3000 and redis db #1

npm test: Runs the mocha tests

Any issues reporting or pull requests are welcomed!

Why Bull?

Distributed task queue is a necessity in a lot of use cases. Among all the queues out there, Celery is probably the most prominent and has the biggest community. However, it's hard to integrate Celery into the Node.js programs, simply because that's another language environment to maintain. Therefore, a javascript native task queue is much needed.

Among the queues written for javascript, Kue is the most widely used one. Kue is a great library, and we have relied heavily on Kue before, but we are gradually troubled by the various bugs of the library. Due to the time when Kue was first written, a lot of things weren't possible (for example, atomicity of complex redis operations, which is now enabled by the built-in LUA scripting engine). What's more, several important features (FIFO behavior of delayed jobs, for instance) are missing from Kue or are hard to implement due to the early design decisions.

Then bull came along. It's written by the guys from OptimalBits and its APIs are modeled heavily after those of Kue. In its core, however, it's written very carefully (and differently from Kue) to ensure robustness and atomicity. Bugs that are common to distributed queue designs are not found with bull or have been fixed along the way.

As awesome as bull is, the only thing that is missing is a web monitoring interface, much like that of Kue, so we decided to make our own, thus toureiro is born.

Browser Compatibility

It's compatible with all modern browsers. Since the front end relies on react, and react does support all the way down to IE8, it's possible that IE8 will work as well, though with messy styles.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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