diff --git a/api/redis.js b/api/redis.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e688baa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/redis.js
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+const redis = require("redis")
+const client = redis.createClient()
+
+
+const addMessage = message => {
+  const json = JSON.stringify(message);
+  client.rpush("messages", json)
+
+  return message
+}
+
+const history = (skip=0, take=20) => {
+  skip = (1 + skip) * -1     // negate to get FIFO
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => client.lrange("messages", (skip * take), skip, (err, data) => {
+    if (err) {
+      console.log(err);
+      reject(err);
+    }
+
+    data = data.map(data => JSON.parse(data));
+    resolve(data);
+  }))
+}
+
+const clearHistory = () => {
+  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => client.del("messages", (err, success) => {
+    if (err) {
+      console.log(err);
+      reject(err);
+    }
+    resolve(success == 1 ? true : false);
+  }))
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  addMessage,
+  history,
+  clearHistory
+};
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diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 9f7d0ed..81d6102 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@
     "mini-css-extract-plugin": "~0.5",
     "optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin": "~3.2",
     "pm2": "^4.2.3",
+    "redis": "^3.0.2",
     "sass-loader": "~7.1",
     "uglifyjs-webpack-plugin": "~1.2",
     "url-loader": "^2.2.0",