In-browser Redis

http://narma.github.io/2015/redis-in-browser/

by ghosh • 11 years ago

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antirez• 11 years ago

For me emscripten is today like the ZX Spectrum emulator for the C64 was when I was a child: I understand how it works, but this is not enough to stop the wow moment.

fiatjaf• 11 years ago

The best use of emscripten I've seen to this day is this compilation of the big complex piece of software that is GNUnet to the browser: https://github.com/amatus/gnunet-web

(Also, it is useful to bring anonymization to the masses)

fgribreau• 11 years ago

Too bad it does not listen on a port (maybe using WebRTC), it would have been fun to connect it to Redsmin!

alistairjcbrown• 11 years ago

Does not support `flushdb` or `flushall` - I assume these had to be commented out?

vinceyuan• 11 years ago

It's cool. But why do we need to put redis in a browser (client side)? Just for fun?

zimbatm• 11 years ago

One application would be to embed redis with the online documentation. This would allow to not only show examples but make them executable as well. The user could play with them without having to install anything.

Most of these "try X" features need a user session, allocate a server-side component to that session and then manage recycling. It's much less expensive to stick a JS on a CDN, and also scales much easier horizontally.

phpnode• 11 years ago

Redis.io already does this fwiw

al2o3cr• 11 years ago

Simplest possible in-browser "Redis":

var Redis = {};

;)

philsnow• 11 years ago

So that implements what subset of http://redis.io/commands ?

s/;)/:trollface:/ ;)

imslavko• 11 years ago

Here is my implementation of an in-memory Redis based on JS objects that supports Lists, Strings and Hashes commands. This implementation is mostly used as an in-memory cache in the browser to sync state from the server in the Meteor framework:

https://github.com/meteor/miniredis

ende42• 11 years ago

Nice!

Using it as slave of a server side redis would be fun. :)

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