mcollina/fastq

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1137 stars · 61 forks observed · 2026-09-01

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

fastq is a fast, in-memory work queue for JavaScript with configurable concurrency, supporting both callback and promise APIs. It is a lightweight, high-performance alternative to async.queue for processing queued tasks with a worker function.

Use cases

• run async tasks with limited concurrency in node
• process a queue of jobs with a worker function
• replace async.queue with a faster alternative
• throttle parallel async operations
• build a task pipeline with pause/resume and drain events
• process items sequentially or with fixed parallelism

When to choose

• you need a minimal, dependency-free in-memory task queue with high throughput
• you want both callback and promise APIs with TypeScript types
• you need fine control over concurrency, pause/resume, and drain semantics

When to avoid

• you need a persistent or distributed job queue that survives restarts (use Redis/RabbitMQ-backed queues)
• you need scheduling, retries, or delayed jobs out of the box
• you are not in a JavaScript/Node.js environment

Facets

library · maturity stable

concurrency developer-tools developer-tools backend work-queue async-queue task-scheduling worker-pool promise-api typescript-support automation nodejs javascript

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