Redis Realtime

Build realtime services on top of redis

A live demo of redis realtime is available here

What is Redis Realtime?

For now redis-realtime is a set of packages for react and node js that can be used to build scalable realtime services on top of redis.

Packages

redis-realtime-react

This is a react package that help you to easily connect with the redis with the help redis-realtime-node package and update the database. More information on the package is available on its readme.

redis-realtime-nodejs

This is the nodejs sdk that will be used my redis-realtime-react to communicate redis. More information on the package is available on its readme.

Running Locally

This project is a monorepo with the packages and a example and it uses npm workspaces to manage them locally.

Prerequisites

• Requires npm v7 or above.
• Ideal nodejs version v14.8
• Redis running with RedisJson Module. You can use this docker-compose.yml

Run examples locally

Install the dependencies

npm install

Now you have to build the packages.

npm --prefix packages/redis-realtime-node run build
npm --prefix packages/redis-realtime-react run build

Start the backend server

cd example/realtime-be && npm start

Start the frontend

cd example/realtime-fe && npm run dev

Detailed Architecture

Redis realtime packages detailed architecture.