A simple global locking/unlocking mechanism using redis
npm i locklock-redis- The interface contains two main functions
acquireLock,releaseLock. - to use locking you need to have an intialized redis client and choose a string to be used for locking on redis
- to try and acquire the lock on certain key:
const res = await locklock.acquireLock(client, testString);// will return 1 if lock is acquired successfully
// will return 0 if already locked by someone else- to unlock a key after you are done executing critical section:
let res = await locklock.releaseLock(client, testString);// will return true asserting that your unlock process is successfull