Allow reconnect retries on initialisation?

[martinj]

Runtime

nodejs

Runtime version

20

Module version

7.0.2

Used with

hapi

Any other relevant information

No response

How can we help?

Is it possible make it auto reconnect redis on startup?
As it is now it will throw and crash Hapi if connection to redis fails.

Noticed that there is a client.disconnect that occurs if the initial connect fails that causes it to throw.
Could that disconnect be optional or removed? https://github.com/hapijs/catbox-redis/blob/master/lib/index.js#L112

From IORedis docs:

By default, ioredis will try to reconnect when the connection to Redis is lost except when the connection is closed manually by redis.disconnect() or redis.quit().