stephenplusplus/nodejs-pubsub

Node.js client for Google Cloud Pub/Sub: Ingest event streams from anywhere, at any scale, for simple, reliable, real-time stream analytics.

Google Cloud Pub/Sub: Node.js Client

Node.js idiomatic client for Cloud Pub/Sub.

Cloud Pub/Sub is a fully-managed real-time messaging service that allows you to send and receive messages between independent applications.

• Cloud Pub/Sub Node.js Client API Reference
• github.com/googleapis/nodejs-pubsub
• Cloud Pub/Sub Documentation

Read more about the client libraries for Cloud APIs, including the older Google APIs Client Libraries, in Client Libraries Explained.

Table of contents:

• Quickstart
  • Before you begin
  • Installing the client library
  • Using the client library
• Samples
• Versioning
• Contributing
• License

Quickstart

Before you begin

1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.

   Go to the projects page

2. Enable billing for your project.

   Enable billing

3. Enable the Google Cloud Pub/Sub API.

   Enable the API

4. Set up authentication with a service account so you can access the API from your local workstation.

Installing the client library

npm install --save @google-cloud/pubsub

Using the client library

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
const PubSub = require('@google-cloud/pubsub');

// Your Google Cloud Platform project ID
const projectId = 'YOUR_PROJECT_ID';

// Instantiates a client
const pubsubClient = PubSub({
  projectId: projectId
});

// The name for the new topic
const topicName = 'my-new-topic';

// Creates the new topic
pubsubClient.createTopic(topicName)
  .then((results) => {
    const topic = results[0];
    console.log(`Topic ${topic.name} created.`);
  })
  .catch((err) => {
    console.error('ERROR:', err);
  });

Samples

Samples are in the samples/ directory. The samples' README.md has instructions for running the samples.

Sample	Source Code	Try it
Subscriptions	source code
Topics	source code

The Cloud Pub/Sub Node.js Client API Reference documentation also contains samples.

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning.

This library is considered to be in beta. This means it is expected to be mostly stable while we work toward a general availability release; however, complete stability is not guaranteed. We will address issues and requests against beta libraries with a high priority.

More Information: Google Cloud Platform Launch Stages

Contributing

Contributions welcome! See the Contributing Guide.

License

Apache Version 2.0

See LICENSE