TaskBotJS
Infrastructure
background job processing
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
4 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 8 critical, out of 23 comments about the project. Thread score -0.16.
Docs: 0 for, 3 againstPricing: 0 for, 3 againstIdea: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Good logo and clean design
From 1 comment
Great logo!
waibelp on HN
Thorough documentation approach
From 1 comment
Whee! My first Show HN. I've only been here, like, seven years and all. But, yeah, I've been tooling away on TaskBotJS in my metaphorical garage for a while. I've found Kue and…
eropple on HN
Objections
Docs lack a hello world and mix JS and TS examples
From 1 comment
After a few minutes I gave up on evaluating this tool. It looks interesting but there's no "hello world" or even a simple use-case explanation in the first few pages of docs.…
sequoia on HN
Open-core pricing with recurring jobs gated
From 1 comment
Not a fan of this sort of "open core" offering, and it's heavy on the marketing. Recurring jobs are an "Enterprise" feature? Hard pass. That's a core feature of Celery and…
anothergoogler on HN
Calling itself the best is overhyped
From 1 comment
How can "The best TypeScript and JavaScript background job processing on the planet" only have 8 stars on GH ? :o
vanwalj on HN
Requests
Add a JavaScript example job
From 1 comment
After a few minutes I gave up on evaluating this tool. It looks interesting but there's no "hello world" or even a simple use-case explanation in the first few pages of docs.…
sequoia on HN
Add a Docker setup running TaskBotJS itself
From 1 comment
I love seeing projects with a docker-compose.yml, so I can check it out quickly. However, yours only spins up redis - wouldn't it make sense to spin up TaskBotJS in a separate…
bdcravens on HN
Questions
Why use this over RabbitMQ or Celery
From 2 comments
sorry i don't get it. why would somebody use this over a rabbitmq.
disiplus on HNI don't get it. I'm primarily a Python developer, so this looks like Celery to me. I've never understood why I'd want to tie myself to a particular library, rather than encode…
alexchamberlain on HN
Why Redis instead of SQLite
From 1 comment
Not criticizing, but just curious what was the reasoning behind picking Redis rather than something like sqlite, which would keep the application a little bit more self-contained…
andreygrehov on HN
How transactional job publishing works with Postgres
From 1 comment
Trying to solve something like this always puzzled me: how to make job publishing transactional? There are no simple way to do transaction across redis and, say, postgres. If you…
ex3ndr on HN
Alternatives named
Kue and Bull
From 2 comments
Whee! My first Show HN. I've only been here, like, seven years and all. But, yeah, I've been tooling away on TaskBotJS in my metaphorical garage for a while. I've found Kue and…
eropple on HNIf I had to choose between Kue and Bull, I'd choose Bull. But I found it frustrating to work with. - I want to support multiple backends. Bull is a Redis queue. Which is fine, as…
eropple on HN
Sidekiq
From 1 comment
I like Mike a lot and I think Sidekiq is awesome--not having it in Node was largely why I wrote TaskBotJS. And I evaluated Faktory before writing it, because hey, this has been a…
eropple on HN
Faktory
From 1 comment
How about a language agnostic background processing framework with clients in multiple languages, including Javascript? https://github.com/contribsys/faktory
deedubaya on HN
Celery
From 1 comment
I don't get it. I'm primarily a Python developer, so this looks like Celery to me. I've never understood why I'd want to tie myself to a particular library, rather than encode…
alexchamberlain on HN
node-resque
From 1 comment
Whee! My first Show HN. I've only been here, like, seven years and all. But, yeah, I've been tooling away on TaskBotJS in my metaphorical garage for a while. I've found Kue and…
eropple on HN