Sidequest is an open-source, modern, scalable distributed background job processor for Node.js applications. Built with TypeScript and designed for production use, it provides reliable job processing with multiple database backends, a beautiful web dashboard, and comprehensive monitoring capabilities.

✨ Features

• 🚀 High Performance - Worker threads for non-blocking job processing
• 🗄️ Multiple Backends - SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL support out of the box
• ✅ ESM and CJS support - Fully compatible with modern JavaScript
• 📝 Support for TypeScript - Supports TypeScript jobs by default if you are using Node.js >= 24
• 📊 Web Dashboard - Beautiful, responsive dashboard for monitoring jobs and queues
• 🎯 Queue Management - Multiple queues with configurable workers and priorities
• 🫀 Job Lifecycle Management - Configurable retry with exponential backoff, snooze, and fail mechanisms
• ⏰ Scheduled Jobs - Support for scheduling jobs to run at specific times
• 🔒 Job Uniqueness - Prevent duplicate jobs with flexible uniqueness constraints
• 🛠️ CLI Tools - Command-line interface for database migrations and management
• 🏗️ Monorepo Architecture - Modular packages for flexible deployment
• 📦 Easy Installation - Simple setup with npm or yarn