fastify-amqp-async

Fastify AMQP plugin with a modern, promise-based API

fastify-amqp-async is a Fastify plugin inspired by fastify-amqp which allows for interacting with RabbitMQ using a more modern, Promise-based API provided by amqplib-as-promised, so that writing publishers doesn't feel like 2013.

Features

• Supports both channels with publisher confirms and regular channels
• Decorates the Fastify Instance with amqp object exposing RabbitMQ connection, channel and confirmChannel following amqplib-as-promised API
• Has 100% test coverage

Installation

npm install fastify-amqp-async

The underlying amqplib-as-promised library exposes some objects of amqplib native types such as Message. In order to allow for proper typechecks of such objects, it is recommended to install @types/amqplib as a development dependency:

npm install --save-dev @types/amqplib

Usage

const fastify = require('fastify');
const fastifyAmqpAsync = require('fastify-amqp-async');

const app = fastify();

const options = {
    connectionString: "amqp://user:password@localhost:5672",
    useConfirmChannel: false, // true by default
    useRegularChannel: true, // false by default
}

app.register(fastifyAmqpAsync, options);

app.get('/produce', async function (req, res) {
    const channel = this.amqp.channel;

    await channel.assertQueue('queuename', { durable: true });
    await channel.sendToQueue('queuename', Buffer.from("Sample message"));

    res.send("done");
});

You can find additional usage examples in the examples folder.

Reference

The config object passed as a second parameter passed to register() is optional (since all 4 of its keys have default values) has the following schema:

interface FastifyAmqpAsyncOptions {
    /**
     * AMQP connection string
     * @default 'amqp://guest:guest@localhost:5672'
     */
    connectionString?: string;
    /**
     * Spawn a confirm channel (awaiting publisher confirmations) exposed via FastifyInstance.amqp.confirmChannel
     * @default true
     */
    useConfirmChannel?: boolean;
    /**
     * Spawn a regular channel (fire-and-forget) exposed via FastifyInstance.amqp.channel
     * @default false
     */
    useRegularChannel?: boolean;
    /**
     * Ignore the default onClose handler which closes the connection
     * If set to true, you have to manage closing the connection yourself
     * (i.e. after waiting for all in-flight messages to be delivered)
     * @default false
     */
    ignoreOnClose?: boolean;
}

Upon being registered, fastify-amqp-async decorates the FastifyInstance with amqp exposing the following keys:

• connection - the underlying amqplib-as-promised connection object (API reference)
• channel - a single amqplib-as-promised fire-and-forget channel object (API reference). Bare in mind that it will be undefined by default unless useRegularChannel is set to true in the config object.
• confirmChannel - a single amqplib-as-promised channel with publisher confirms (API reference). Will be undefined if useConfirmChannel is set to false in the config object.