By Redis Team

First things first, let's set up a client. The Client class is the thing that knows how to talk to Redis on behalf of Redis OM. One option is to put our client in its own file and export it. This ensures that the application has one and only one instance of Client and thus only one connection to Redis Stack. Since Redis and JavaScript are both (more or less) single-threaded, this works neatly. 

Let's create our first file. In the om folder add a file called client.js and add the following code:

import { Client } from 'redis-om'

/* pulls the Redis URL from .env */
const url = process.env.REDIS_URL

/* create and open the Redis OM Client */
const client = await new Client().open(url)

export default client

Note that we are getting our Redis URL from an environment variable. It was put there by Dotenv and read from our .env file. If we didn't have the .env file or have a REDIS_URL property in our .env file, this code would gladly read this value from the actual environment variables.

Also note that the .open() method conveniently returns this. This this (can I say this again? I just did!) lets us chain the instantiation of the client with the opening of the client. If this isn't to your liking, you could always write it like this:

/* create and open the Redis OM Client */
const client = new Client()
await client.open(url)