I built this project to better understand how Redis and database systems communicate. I started by reading the Redis protocol documentation and chose JavaScript as the fastest way to prototype and experiment.

At first I checked a few existing implementations, but most were more complex than what I needed, so I decided to build a minimal version from scratch. After revisiting the protocol docs, everything clicked more clearly, and I implemented a server that follows the protocol. Once the core commands were working, I added tests and verified that the server behaved as expected.