The AWS SDK for JavaScript V3 API Reference Guide describes in detail all the API operations for the AWS SDK for JavaScript version 3 (V3).

Sending and receiving messages in Amazon SQS

This Node.js code example shows:

The scenario

In this example, a series of Node.js modules are used to send and receive messages. The Node.js modules use the SDK for JavaScript to send and receive messages by using these methods of the SQS client class:

For more information about Amazon SQS messages, see Sending a message to an Amazon SQS queue and Receiving and deleting a message from an Amazon SQS queue in the Amazon Simple Queue Service Developer Guide.

Prerequisite tasks

To set up and run this example, you must first complete these tasks:

Sending a message to a queue

Create a libs directory, and create a Node.js module with the file name sqsClient.js. Copy and paste the code below into it, which creates the Amazon SQS client object. Replace REGION with your AWS Region.

import  { SQSClient } from "@aws-sdk/client-sqs";
// Set the AWS Region.
const REGION = "REGION"; //e.g. "us-east-1"
// Create SQS service object.
const sqsClient = new SQSClient({ region: REGION });
export  { sqsClient };

This example code can be found here on GitHub.

Create a Node.js module with the file name sqs_sendmessage.js. Be sure to configure the SDK as previously shown, including downloading the required clients and packages. Create a JSON object containing the parameters needed for your message, including the URL of the queue to which you want to send this message. In this example, the message provides details about a book on a list of fiction best sellers including the title, author, and number of weeks on the list.

Call the SendMessageCommand method. The callback returns the unique ID of the message.

// Import required AWS SDK clients and commands for Node.js
import { SendMessageCommand } from  "@aws-sdk/client-sqs";
import { sqsClient } from  "./libs/sqsClient.js";

// Set the parameters
const params = {
  DelaySeconds: 10,
  MessageAttributes: {
    Title: {
      DataType: "String",
      StringValue: "The Whistler",
    },
    Author: {
      DataType: "String",
      StringValue: "John Grisham",
    },
    WeeksOn: {
      DataType: "Number",
      StringValue: "6",
    },
  },
  MessageBody:
    "Information about current NY Times fiction bestseller for week of 12/11/2016.",
  // MessageDeduplicationId: "TheWhistler",  // Required for FIFO queues
  // MessageGroupId: "Group1",  // Required for FIFO queues
  QueueUrl: "SQS_QUEUE_URL" //SQS_QUEUE_URL; e.g., 'https://sqs.REGION.amazonaws.com/ACCOUNT-ID/QUEUE-NAME'
};

const run = async () => {
  try {
    const data = await sqsClient.send(new SendMessageCommand(params));
    console.log("Success, message sent. MessageID:", data.MessageId);
    return data; // For unit tests.
  } catch (err) {
    console.log("Error", err);
  }
};
run();

To run the example, enter the following at the command prompt.

node sqs_sendmessage.js 

This example code can be found here on GitHub.

Receiving and deleting messages from a queue

Create a libs directory, and create a Node.js module with the file name sqsClient.js. Copy and paste the code below into it, which creates the Amazon SQS client object. Replace REGION with your AWS Region.

import  { SQSClient } from "@aws-sdk/client-sqs";
// Set the AWS Region.
const REGION = "REGION"; //e.g. "us-east-1"
// Create SQS service object.
const sqsClient = new SQSClient({ region: REGION });
export  { sqsClient };

This example code can be found here on GitHub.

Create a Node.js module with the file name sqs_deletemessage.js. Be sure to configure the SDK as previously shown, including downloading the required clients and packages. Create a JSON object containing the parameters needed for your message, including the URL of the queue from which you want to receive messages. In this example, the parameters specify receipt of all message attributes, as well as receipt of no more than 10 messages.

Call the ReceiveMessageCommand method. The callback returns an array of Message objects from which you can retrieve ReceiptHandle for each message that you use to later delete that message. Create another JSON object containing the parameters needed to delete the message, which are the URL of the queue and the ReceiptHandle value. Call the DeleteMessageCommand method to delete the message you received.

// Import required AWS SDK clients and commands for Node.js
import {
  ReceiveMessageCommand,
  DeleteMessageCommand,
} from  "@aws-sdk/client-sqs";
import { sqsClient } from  "./libs/sqsClient.js";

// Set the parameters
const queueURL = "SQS_QUEUE_URL"; //SQS_QUEUE_URL; e.g., 'https://sqs.REGION.amazonaws.com/ACCOUNT-ID/QUEUE-NAME'
const params = {
  AttributeNames: ["SentTimestamp"],
  MaxNumberOfMessages: 10,
  MessageAttributeNames: ["All"],
  QueueUrl: queueURL,
  VisibilityTimeout: 20,
  WaitTimeSeconds: 0,
};

const run = async () => {
  try {
    const data = await sqsClient.send(new ReceiveMessageCommand(params));
    if (data.Messages) {
      var deleteParams = {
        QueueUrl: queueURL,
        ReceiptHandle: data.Messages[0].ReceiptHandle,
      };
      try {
        const data = await sqsClient.send(new DeleteMessageCommand(deleteParams));
        console.log("Message deleted", data);
      } catch (err) {
        console.log("Error", err);
      }
    } else {
      console.log("No messages to delete");
    }
    return data; // For unit tests.
  } catch (err) {
    console.log("Receive Error", err);
  }
};
run();

To run the example, enter the following at the command prompt.

node sqs_deletemessage.js 

This example code can be found here on GitHub.