lepus

Convenience wrapper around amqplib.

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NOTE: This is absolutely not a complete or really working solution, I'm just implementing bits and bobs as I require them. Feel free to contribute.

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Features

• Connect to RabbitMQ & maintain a connection
• Retry to connect in case the connection fails or drops
• Publish a message
• Subscribe to a message

Install

$ npm install lepus --save

Usage

Basic Usage

const Lepus = require('lepus');

(async () => {
  let lepus = new Lepus();
  await lepus.connect();
  
  // Publish a message
  let publishOpts = {
      exchange: {
        type: 'topic',
        name: 'test'
      },
      key: 'test-key',
      payload: {
        foo: 'bar',
        bar: 'baz',
        date: new Date()
      },
      options: {}
    };  
  await lepus.publishMessage(publishOpts);
  
  // Subscribe to messages
  let subscribeOpts = {
      exchange: {
        type: 'topic',
        name: 'test'
      },
      key: 'test-key',
      queue: {
        name: 'test-key-queue'
      }
  };
  
  await lepus.subscribeMessage(subscribeOpts, async (msgContent, msgRaw) => {
    
    console.log('Hurray, we have received a message!');
    console.log('=> msgContent', msgContent);
    console.log('=> msgRaw', msgRaw);
    
  });
  
  
  // In case we want to disconnect ...
  // await lepus.disconnect();
  
})();

API

See API docs

Examples

• Connect to RabbitMQ: ./examples/connection.js
• Handle connection failure: ./examples/connection-failure.js
• Publish a message: ./examples/publishMessage.js
• Subscribe to a queue: ./examples/subscribeMessage.js

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue. The process for contributing is outlined below:

1. Create a fork of the project
2. Work on whatever bug or feature you wish
3. Create a pull request (PR)

I cannot guarantee that I will merge all PRs but I will evaluate them all.

Run tests

Unit tests:

$ npm run test:unit

Integration tests:

First start RabbitMQ locally:

$ docker-compose up -d

Then run the integration tests:

$ npm run test:unit

Updating docs

$ make gen-readme

References

Here are links & libraries that helped me:

• https://guidesmiths.github.io/rascal/
• https://github.com/lanetix/node-lanetix-amqp-easy
• https://github.com/nowait/amqp
• https://github.com/dial-once/node-bunnymq

Some inspirations for the topology functionality:

• https://github.com/LeanKit-Labs/rabbit-topology

AMQP Connection Mgmt:

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/amqp-connection-manager

About

Author

Stefan Walther

• twitter
• github.com/stefanwalther
• LinkedIn

License

MIT

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