sidequestjs/sidequest — A modern, scalable background job processor for Node.js

Sidequest

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Sidequest is a modern, scalable background job processor for Node.js applications. Built with TypeScript and designed for production use, it provides reliable job processing with multiple database backends, a beautiful web dashboard, and comprehensive monitoring capabilities.

For the complete documentation, visit docs.sidequestjs.com.

For a comprehensive FAQ, visit docs.sidequestjs.com/faq.

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🚀 High Performance - Worker threads for non-blocking job processing
🗄️ Multiple Backends - PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB support out of the box
✅ ESM and CJS support - Fully compatible with modern JavaScript
📝 Support for Typescript - Supports TypeScript jobs by default if you are using Node.js >= v23.6.0
📊 Web Dashboard - Beautiful, responsive dashboard for monitoring jobs and queues
🎯 Queue Management - Multiple queues with configurable workers and priorities
🫀 Job Lifecycle Management - Configurable retry with exponential backoff, snooze, and fail mechanisms
⏰ Scheduled Jobs - Support for scheduling jobs to run at specific times
🔒 Job Uniqueness - Prevent duplicate jobs with flexible uniqueness constraints
🛠️ CLI Tools - Command-line interface for database migrations and management
🏗️ Monorepo Architecture - Modular packages for flexible deployment

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