Background jobs for Kemal server in Crystal lang

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  1. mosquito

    A background task runner for crystal applications supporting periodic (CRON) and manually queued jobs (by robacarp)

    The Crytal Sidekiq port was a tempting option for a background task runner, but I went with mosquito-cr/mosquito. My initializer looks like this:

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  3. sam

    Rake-like task manager

    I have a sam.cr task in place that helps me with local develpment. I tweaked make sam dev to spin up two Sentry runners, and it continues to work seamlessly with both development executables + livereload (livecompile?) again.

  4. sentry

    Build/Runs your crystal application, watches files, and rebuilds/restarts app on file changes (by samueleaton)

    I have a sam.cr task in place that helps me with local develpment. I tweaked make sam dev to spin up two Sentry runners, and it continues to work seamlessly with both development executables + livereload (livecompile?) again.

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