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Host and Use Redis for Free

Ramki Pitchala on April 21, 2021

This article was originally posted on Medium. If you prefer reading it from there, please do check it out. Introduction Although buildi...

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Ceddy Muhoza • Oct 21 '21

Checkout Upstash too!

Ramki Pitchala • Apr 15 '22

Yeah it looks promising!

Ahmad Helaly • Jul 21 '23

Thx a lot, Upstash is EXACTLY what I have been searching for :)

Amresh Prasad Sinha • Feb 3 '22 • Edited

Is it now not working? I tried the exact same thing but it prints out nothing on the console.
Here's the code:

const redis = require("redis");
require("dotenv").config();

const client = redis.createClient({
  host: process.env.REDIS_URI,
  port: process.env.REDIS_PORT,
  password: process.env.REDIS_PASSWORD
});

client.on("connect", () => {
  console.log("Connected to our redis instance!");
  client.set("Greatest Basketball Player", "Lebron James");
});

One more thing... This thing works fine in npm package redis@3.1.2 but not with latest 4.0.3 (as of now)

Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks!

Ramki Pitchala • Apr 15 '22

I see, so if I understand it correctly. There wasn't an error with redis@3.1.2 but it didn't print "Connected to our redis instance!" to the console. But with 4.0.3, it gave an error when compiling?

Daniel Ziltener • Apr 21 '21

It is like everyone magically forgot how to install software, and now it's "did you already use this cool cloud service that totally doesn't do exactly what you could achieve by zypper in redis?"