amqplib

AMQP 0-9-1 library and client for Node.JS

npm install amqplib

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• Examples from RabbitMQ tutorials

A library for making AMQP 0-9-1 clients for Node.JS, and an AMQP 0-9-1 client for Node.JS v10+.

This library does not implement AMQP 1.0 or AMQP 0-10.

Project status:

• Expected to work
• Complete high-level and low-level APIs (i.e., all bits of the protocol)
• Stable APIs
• A fair few tests
• Measured test coverage
• Ports of the RabbitMQ tutorials as examples
• Used in production

Still working on:

• Getting to 100% (or very close to 100%) test coverage

Callback API example

const amqplib = require('amqplib/callback_api');
const queue = 'tasks';

amqplib.connect('amqp://localhost', (err, conn) => {
  if (err) throw err;

  // Listener
  conn.createChannel((err, ch2) => {
    if (err) throw err;

    ch2.assertQueue(queue);

    ch2.consume(queue, (msg) => {
      if (msg !== null) {
        console.log(msg.content.toString());
        ch2.ack(msg);
      } else {
        console.log('Consumer cancelled by server');
      }
    });
  });

  // Sender
  conn.createChannel((err, ch1) => {
    if (err) throw err;

    ch1.assertQueue(queue);

    setInterval(() => {
      ch1.sendToQueue(queue, Buffer.from('something to do'));
    }, 1000);
  });
});

Promise/Async API example

const amqplib = require('amqplib');

(async () => {
  const queue = 'tasks';
  const conn = await amqplib.connect('amqp://localhost');

  const ch1 = await conn.createChannel();
  await ch1.assertQueue(queue);

  // Listener
  ch1.consume(queue, (msg) => {
    if (msg !== null) {
      console.log('Recieved:', msg.content.toString());
      ch1.ack(msg);
    } else {
      console.log('Consumer cancelled by server');
    }
  });

  // Sender
  const ch2 = await conn.createChannel();

  setInterval(() => {
    ch2.sendToQueue(queue, Buffer.from('something to do'));
  }, 1000);
})();

Running tests

npm test

To run the tests RabbitMQ is required. Either install it with your package manager, or use docker to run a RabbitMQ instance.

docker run -d --name amqp.test -p 5672:5672 rabbitmq

If prefer not to run RabbitMQ locally it is also possible to use a instance of RabbitMQ hosted elsewhere. Use the URL environment variable to configure a different amqp host to connect to. You may also need to do this if docker is not on localhost; e.g., if it's running in docker-machine.

One public host is dev.rabbitmq.com:

URL=amqp://dev.rabbitmq.com npm test

NB You may experience test failures due to timeouts if using the dev.rabbitmq.com instance.

You can run it under different versions of Node.JS using nave:

nave use 10 npm test

or run the tests on all supported versions of Node.JS in one go:

make test-all-nodejs

(which also needs nave installed, of course).

Lastly, setting the environment variable LOG_ERRORS will cause the tests to output error messages encountered, to the console; this is really only useful for checking the kind and formatting of the errors.

LOG_ERRORS=true npm test

Test coverage

make coverage
open file://`pwd`/coverage/lcov-report/index.html