How to emit Socket.IO events from a BullMQ worker running in a separate process?
Summary A Node.js backend using BullMQ for background jobs and Socket.IO for real-time updates faced a common architectural challenge: emitting Socket.IO events from a separate BullMQ worker process after job completion. The root issue was the forced separation of concerns between the Socket.IO server (bound to HTTP connections) and the BullMQ worker (isolated process lacking … Read more