App crashes if Redis is not available

Question

App crashes if Redis is not available

johnnynanjiang opened this issue 4 years ago · comments

We had a nodejs service based on Staart, and it kept crash down on AWS for a week. It turned out to be Redis is missing. It still could go up and running without Redis, but just crashed from time to time.

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Anand Chowdhary · Answer 2 · Mon Sep 21 2020 17:02:42 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Redis is an important component because it helps not only with caching, but also with token invalidation (very important for authentication). You can either use AWS-manages Redis (https://aws.amazon.com/elasticache/) or just run your own redis-server before starting the app. 😄

Anand Chowdhary · Answer 3 · Mon Nov 09 2020 13:34:33 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This is now fixed in v3. You don't need Redis anymore, as we don't invalidate JWTs (refresh tokens are UUIDs and require a database request, rather than being JWTs that need to be invalidated).