Redis Pixel War is a real-time collaborative application that allows anyone to paint individual pixels on a 100x100 canvas, designed to showcase Redis 8 as a multi-model platform and not just a cache.
The application is built with Next.js App Router along with TypeScript and MUI and uses Redis 8 for primary storage, real-time messaging, and event auditing. Each pixel change is persisted in Redis, broadcast to all connected clients, and logged for history and statistics.
Main features span Real-time updates via Server Sent Events (SSE) powered by Redis Pub/Sub span Durable canvas persistence in Redis Hashes span User presence tracking with Sorted Sets and Hashes span History and auditing with Redis Streams to allow replaying changes or performing analysis span Leaderboards and per-user metrics calculated from data in Redis
How data models are used in Redis 8 span Primary storage Hashes like canvas colors store the color per pixel index, and canvas owners can record the user who last painted each pixel span Real-time messaging Pub/Sub publishes each pixel update to a canvas updates channel and the server relays those events to browsers via SSE span History and auditing Streams like stream canvas receive an entry for each pixel change for later analysis and replay span Presence Sorted Sets and Hashes record the last activity and screen names of users with endpoints that update heartbeats and clean up inactive users
Benefits of using Redis 8 span Convergence of multiple capabilities Hashes, Pub/Sub, Streams, Sorted Sets in a low-latency system span Architecture simplification without the need for separate database, broker, and metrics store span High performance in HSCAN and messaging that maintains a smooth experience even with large boards
Solution architecture span Frontend Next.js App Router and MUI with pixel rendering via HTML5 Canvas span Backend Next.js API routes that manage persistence, validation, and event publishing span Realtime SSE endpoint that subscribes to Redis Pub/Sub to send pixel events to browsers span Data Redis 8 as the system of record and event bus
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Last updated 2025-08-10
