In no way job is ever retried

[Nuffic]

Code to reproduce

const Queue = require("bee-queue");
const queue = new Queue("http-sender");

const job = queue.createJob({
  timestamp: Date.now(),
});

job.backoff("exponential", 1000);
job.retries(3);
job.save();

job.on("succeeded", (result) => {
  console.log(`${job.id}: sent`);
});

queue.process((job, done) => {
  console.log(`Processing job ${job.id}`);
  return done(new Error("test"));
});

queue.on("failed", (job, err) => {
  console.log(`Job ${job.id} failed with error ${err.message}`);
});

queue.on("retrying", (job, err) => {
  console.log(
    `Job ${job.id} failed with error ${err.message} but is being retried!`
  );
});

[skeggse]

This is evidently not called out in the README, but you need activateDelayedJobs enabled for the retries feature. We can't make the Job#retries function fail if you don't configure that, because in some contexts you may desire to have the job processor entirely separate from the job producer.

[skeggse]

Actually, I'll leave this open because we should fix the docs issue.