# BullMQ Redis-Based Message Queue and Job Processor for Node.js

> BullMQ is the fastest, most reliable Redis-based distributed queue for Node.js, Python, Elixir, and PHP. It provides priority queues, rate limiting, delayed jobs, parent-child dependencies, repeatable jobs, and sandboxed workers for background processing at scale.

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# BullMQ Redis-Based Message Queue and Job Processor for Node.js

BullMQ is the fastest, most reliable Redis-based distributed queue for Node.js, Python, Elixir, and PHP. It provides priority queues, rate limiting, delayed jobs, parent-child dependencies, repeatable jobs, and sandboxed workers for background processing at scale.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- $ yarn add bullmq

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- The fastest, most reliable, Redis-based distributed queue for Node. <br/>
- Do you need to work with BullMQ on platforms other than Node.js? If so, check out the [BullMQ Proxy](https://github.com/taskforcesh/bullmq-proxy)

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- Add jobs to the queue:
- ts
- import { Queue } from 'bullmq';

- Source: https://github.com/taskforcesh/bullmq
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/taskforcesh/bullmq/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://bullmq.io/

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