Sidequest.js

👋 Hey folks, I'm Lucas, creator of node-cron and now Sidequest.js Modern Node.js apps often rely on schedulers like node-cron or node-schedule. They're simple and effective, but once your app scales to multiple instances, you start hitting real problems like duplicated jobs and blocked APIs due to heavy tasks running in the main thread Sidequest.js was built to solve this It runs background jobs in isolated worker threads and uses your existing database, like PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB or Redis, to coordinate execution across nodes You get retries with backoff, uniqueness, priorities, concurrency control and a beautiful web dashboard to monitor everything No vendor lock-in, no need for SQS, RabbitMQ or Airflow It’s designed to run inside your stack with full control and minimum friction If you’ve struggled with job queues in Node.js, I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback. I'm around all day to answer questions!