Alepha Lock

Distributed mutex and semaphore for resource locking and synchronization.

Installation

This package is part of the Alepha framework and can be installed via the all-in-one package:

npm install alepha

Alternatively, you can install it individually:

npm install @alepha/core @alepha/lock

Module

Lock a resource for a certain period of time.

This module provides a memory implementation of the lock provider. You probably want to use an implementation like RedisLockProvider for distributed systems.

API Reference

Descriptors

$lock()

Lock descriptor

Make sure that only one instance of the handler is running at a time.

When connected to a remote store, the lock is shared across all processes.

Providers

MemoryLockProvider

A simple in-memory store provider.