redis/ioredis

Health v2 · maintenance only

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15332 stars · 1241 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

ioredis is a robust, performance-focused, full-featured Redis client for Node.js written in TypeScript. It supports Redis Cluster, Sentinel, Streams, Pub/Sub, pipelining, and Lua scripting with a promise/callback-friendly API.

Use cases

• connect to redis from node.js
• use redis cluster in nodejs app
• redis pub/sub messaging
• run lua scripts on redis
• redis sentinel failover client
• cache data in redis from node
• redis streams consumer in javascript

When to choose

• you need Redis Cluster, Sentinel, or Streams support in Node.js
• you want a mature, battle-tested client with Lua scripting abstractions
• you need transparent key prefixing and binary Pub/Sub support

When to avoid

• starting a brand-new project - node-redis is the officially recommended client
• you need Redis Stack modules like search, JSON, or time-series
• you are not using Node.js or a JavaScript runtime

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

database-driver caching message-queue databases backend developer-tools cross-platform redis-client redis-cluster redis-sentinel pub-sub lua-scripting typescript nodejs

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