Question: How can you use the BullMQ CLI (Command Line Interface)?

Answer

BullMQ is a robust, fast, and highly reliable job service library in Node.js. It provides a way to implement background jobs and message queues. While BullMQ itself doesn't come with an official Command Line Interface (CLI), it's frequently used together with tools that do. These tools can help manage and interact with your BullMQ queues.

For instance, one popular way to manage BullMQ jobs from the command line is using bull-board for visualizing and managing queues. However, this is more of a graphical interface than a CLI.

If you need a CLI tool specifically, you might need to develop custom scripts using the BullMQ JavaScript API. This could involve writing Node.js scripts that create, add, or manage jobs on your queue.

Here's a basic example of how you could write a script to add a job to a queue:

const Queue = require('bullmq').Queue;

(async () => {
  const myQueue = new Queue('my-queue');

  await myQueue.add('my-job', {
    some: 'data'
  });

  console.log('Job added');
})();

Then, you can run this script from your command line with node my-script.js.

Remember that developing a full-featured CLI tool would require handling a variety of tasks and incorporating a lot more complexity.