Kue vs Resque: What are the differences?

Developers describe Kue as "Kue is a priority job queue backed by redis, built for node.js". Kue is a feature rich priority job queue for node.js backed by redis. A key feature of Kue is its clean user-interface for viewing and managing queued, active, failed, and completed jobs. On the other hand, Resque is detailed as "A Redis-backed Ruby library for creating background jobs, placing them on multiple queues, and processing them later". Background jobs can be any Ruby class or module that responds to perform. Your existing classes can easily be converted to background jobs or you can create new classes specifically to do work. Or, you can do both.

Kue and Resque belong to "Background Processing" category of the tech stack.

Kue and Resque are both open source tools. It seems that Kue with 8.76K GitHub stars and 884 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Resque with 8.54K GitHub stars and 1.57K GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Resque has a broader approval, being mentioned in 34 company stacks & 8 developers stacks; compared to Kue, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.