Add the redis-family configuration option for ioredis to support ipv6 #532
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Let me know if I covered everything here, i'll make any changes you'd like to see or add something that I missed.
I added:
This adds support for the
[options.family]
param as found here: https://ioredis.readthedocs.io/en/latest/API/Although it says
string
there, type checking expects a number and it works with a number.I needed this feature so I could deploy this project on Fly.io. Everything on Fly.io uses ipv6 internally so connecting to Redis must be done using ipv6.