Errands API Server. A language agnostic, HTTP based queue with server side events ( SSE ). Persistant storage using Badger for SSD performance. Concurrency safe for multiple workers to be processing errands off the queue.

• JS - https://github.com/polygon-io/errands-js
• Go - https://github.com/polygon-io/errands-go

Errands server uses environment variables as a way to configure optional config params, here they are:

• ERRANDS_PORT=:4545 - Will change the listening port to 4545
• ERRANDS_STORAGE="/errands/" - Will change the DB location to /errands/

See the postman folder for the PostMan Collection which contains examples and tests for all the possible routes.

You can run the API locally with docker:

docker run -p 5555:5555 polygonio/errands-server

There is an endpoint which will push server side events ( SSE ) to the client when changes happen on the errands server.

/v1/errands/notifications?events={{events_to_listen_to}}

The events are comma delimited. For example ?events=created,completed,failed. The default is * which will send any and all events which happen on the server.

Event Types:

• created - When a new errand is created
• updated - When a new errand is updated
• completed - When a new errand is completed
• processing - When a new errand is processing
• retry - When a new errand is being retried
• failed - When a new errand is failed

Along with the event type, the errand which triggered the event will have its data included in the message.