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Quickstart

Installation

System requirement:

  1. Python 3.10 or higher
  2. Redis server
Redis installation The easiest way to install Redis is to use Docker: 
docker run -d --name redis-stack -p 6379:6379 -p 8001:8001 redis/redis-stack:latest
According to your system, you can also install Redis from the official website: https://redis.io/download Note: we will only require a standard Redis server (without RedisJSON / RedisSearch) in this library. 
pip install aact
from source 
git clone https://github.com/ProKil/aact.git
cd aact
pip install .
For power users, please use `uv` for package management.

Quick Start Example

Assuming your Redis is hosted on localhost:6379 using docker. You can create a dataflow.toml file:

redis_url = "redis://localhost:6379/0" # required

[[nodes]]
node_name = "print"
node_class = "print"

[nodes.node_args.print_channel_types]
"tick/secs/1" = "tick"

[[nodes]]
node_name = "tick"
node_class = "tick"

To run the dataflow:

aact run-dataflow dataflow.toml

This will start the tick node and the print node. The tick node sends a message every second to the print node, which prints the message to the console.