What is Kue?
Kue is a feature rich priority job queue for node.js backed by redis. A key feature of Kue is its clean user-interface for viewing and managing queued, active, failed, and completed jobs.
Kue is a tool in the Background Processing category of a tech stack.
Kue is an open source tool with 9.4K GitHub stars and 861 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Kue's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Kue?
Companies
6 companies reportedly use Kue in their tech stacks, including iVoy, Greenkeeper, and Rentomojo.
Developers
33 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Kue.
Pros of Kue
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Kue Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Kue?
Bull
The fastest, most reliable, Redis-based queue for Node.
Carefully written for rock solid stability and atomicity.
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.
Celery
Celery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. It is focused on real-time operation, but supports scheduling as well.
Sidekiq
Sidekiq uses threads to handle many jobs at the same time in the same process. It does not require Rails but will integrate tightly with Rails 3/4 to make background processing dead simple.
Hangfire
It is an open-source framework that helps you to create, process and manage your background jobs, i.e. operations you don't want to put in your request processing pipeline. It supports all kind of background tasks – short-running and long-running, CPU intensive and I/O intensive, one shot and recurrent.
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