alicebob/miniredis

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

Miniredis is a pure Go implementation of (parts of) the Redis server designed for use in Go unit tests. It runs an in-memory Redis server with a real TCP interface inside the test process, acting like net/http/httptest for Redis.

Use cases

• test Go code that talks to Redis without a real Redis server
• run Redis-dependent unit tests in CI without external binaries
• inspect and seed Redis data directly in tests
• replace Redis mock code with a real protocol server
• test Redis commands like GET, SET, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, and pub/sub

When to choose

• you need fast, dependency-free Redis behavior in Go unit tests
• you want to query stored values directly from the test process
• your CI pipeline cannot install or run a real Redis binary

When to avoid

• you need full Redis feature coverage, persistence, clustering, or exact production behavior
• you are writing integration tests where a real Redis instance is available
• your application uses Redis commands Miniredis does not implement

Facets

library · maturity stable

testing mocking database testing databases developer-tools go cross-platform redis in-memory unittest test-double go-testing

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