Socket.IO Redis Streams adapter

The @socket.io/redis-streams-adapter package allows broadcasting packets between multiple Socket.IO servers.

Table of contents

• Supported features
• Installation
• Usage
  • With the redis package
  • With the redis package and a Redis cluster
  • With the ioredis package
  • With the ioredis package and a Redis cluster
• Options
• How it works
• License

Supported features

Feature	socket.io version	Support
Socket management	4.0.0	:white_check_mark: YES (since version 0.1.0)
Inter-server communication	4.1.0	:white_check_mark: YES (since version 0.1.0)
Broadcast with acknowledgements	4.5.0	:white_check_mark: YES (since version 0.1.0)
Connection state recovery	4.6.0	:white_check_mark: YES (since version 0.1.0)

Installation

npm install @socket.io/redis-streams-adapter redis

Usage

With the redis package

1import { createClient } from "redis";
2import { Server } from "socket.io";
3import { createAdapter } from "@socket.io/redis-streams-adapter";
4
5const redisClient = createClient({ url: "redis://localhost:6379" });
6
7await redisClient.connect();
8
9const io = new Server({
10  adapter: createAdapter(redisClient)
11});
12
13io.listen(3000);

With the redis package and a Redis cluster

1import { createCluster } from "redis";
2import { Server } from "socket.io";
3import { createAdapter } from "@socket.io/redis-streams-adapter";
4
5const redisClient = createCluster({
6  rootNodes: [
7    {
8      url: "redis://localhost:7000",
9    },
10    {
11      url: "redis://localhost:7001",
12    },
13    {
14      url: "redis://localhost:7002",
15    },
16  ],
17});
18
19await redisClient.connect();
20
21const io = new Server({
22  adapter: createAdapter(redisClient)
23});
24
25io.listen(3000);

With the ioredis package

1import { Redis } from "ioredis";
2import { Server } from "socket.io";
3import { createAdapter } from "@socket.io/redis-streams-adapter";
4
5const redisClient = new Redis();
6
7const io = new Server({
8  adapter: createAdapter(redisClient)
9});
10
11io.listen(3000);

With the ioredis package and a Redis cluster

1import { Cluster } from "ioredis";
2import { Server } from "socket.io";
3import { createAdapter } from "@socket.io/redis-streams-adapter";
4
5const redisClient = new Cluster([
6  {
7    host: "localhost",
8    port: 7000,
9  },
10  {
11    host: "localhost",
12    port: 7001,
13  },
14  {
15    host: "localhost",
16    port: 7002,
17  },
18]);
19
20const io = new Server({
21  adapter: createAdapter(redisClient)
22});
23
24io.listen(3000);

Options

Name	Description	Default value
streamName	The name of the Redis stream.	socket.io
maxLen	The maximum size of the stream. Almost exact trimming (~) is used.	10_000
readCount	The number of elements to fetch per XREAD call.	100
sessionKeyPrefix	The prefix of the key used to store the Socket.IO session, when the connection state recovery feature is enabled.	sio:session:
heartbeatInterval	The number of ms between two heartbeats.	5_000
heartbeatTimeout	The number of ms without heartbeat before we consider a node down.	10_000

How it works

The adapter will use a Redis stream to forward events between the Socket.IO servers.

Notes:

• a single stream is used for all namespaces
• the maxLen option allows to limit the size of the stream
• unlike the adapter based on Redis PUB/SUB mechanism, this adapter will properly handle any temporary disconnection to the Redis server and resume the stream
• if connection state recovery is enabled, the sessions will be stored in Redis as a classic key/value pair

License

MIT