The Redis connector enables LoopBack applications to connect to Redis data sources.
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loopback-connector-redis

The official Redis connector for the LoopBack framework.

Usage

Install dependencies

Install the required dependencies via NPM:

npm install --save loopback-connector-redis
npm install --save loopback-datasource-juggler

This connector depends on loopback-datasource-juggler.

Configure a Redis datasource

In your code, declare Redis as a datasource:

var DataSource = require('loopback-datasource-juggler).DataSource;

var ds = new DataSource('redis');
...

Testing

  1. Start the Redis server (using the default port)
  2. Run npm test

WARNING

Existing data in database 0 may be deleted

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