Node Kue Express UI Example running on Heroku

You might use kue in your application to run jobs in the background. kue-ui-express provides a nice UI to monitor those jobs. This example is a ready to go monitoring app which can be deployed to Heroku easily.

Dependencies

It uses kue-ui-express, basic-auth and redis!

Install App on localhost

Clone repository locally: $ git clone git@github.com:zauberware/node-kue-express-ui-heroku-example.git && cd node-kue-express-ui-heroku-example.

Install dependencies: $ npm install.

Setup environment variables: Copy .env.sample to .env. Your .env should look like:

REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379
USERNAME=user
PASSWORD=password
PORT=5001

Open a terminal window and be sure that you run a redis server. Start server: $ redis-server

Start server:

$ npm start

or

$ babel-node start-server.js

or with Procfile and heroku-local cli feature:

$ heroku local

Installation on heroku

Or manually:

1. Create a new app on heroku.
2. Add Heroku Redis or RedisToGo. (If you use RedisToGo you have to change the ENV var in the script.) Note that this app is only the monitoring application. If you have a existing Redis isntance you have to set the link oni the REDIS_URL env var.
3. Be sure all environment variables are set on heroku
4. Add heroku as a remote repository
5. Push to master and deploy the app

Security

To secure the connection between redis and your dynos you have setup the Stunnel Buildpack. Read more here https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/securing-heroku-redis

Installation instruction for buildkit: https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-redis

See our branch tunnel and see the changes in Procfile and Procfile.dev https://github.com/zauberware/node-kue-express-ui-heroku-example/tree/tunnel