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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).

Using queues in Amazon SQS

This Node.js code example shows:

About the example

In this example, a series of Node.js modules are used to work with queues. The Node.js modules use the SDK for JavaScript to enable queues to call the following methods of the SQS client class:

For more information about Amazon SQS messages, see How queues work in the Amazon Simple Queue Service Developer Guide.

Prerequisite tasks

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

Listing your queues

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_listqueues.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 to list your queues, which by default is an empty object. Call the ListQueuesCommand method to retrieve the list of queues. The function returns the URLs of all queues.

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

const run = async () => {
  try {
    const data = await sqsClient.send(new ListQueuesCommand({}));
    console.log("Success", data);
    return data; // For unit tests.
  } catch (err) {
    console.error(err, err.stack);
  }
};
run();

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

node sqs_listqueues.js 

This example code can be found here on GitHub.

Creating 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 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 };

import  { SQSClient } from "@aws-sdk/client-sqs";
// Set the AWS Region.
const REGION = "REGION"; //e.g. "us-east-1"
// Create SNS 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_createqueue.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 to list your queues, which must include the name for the queue created. The parameters can also contain attributes for the queue, such as the number of seconds for which message delivery is delayed or the number of seconds to retain a received message. Call the CreateQueueCommand method. The function returns the URL of the created queue.

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

// Set the parameters
const params = {
  QueueName: "SQS_QUEUE_NAME", //SQS_QUEUE_URL
  Attributes: {
    DelaySeconds: "60", // Number of seconds delay.
    MessageRetentionPeriod: "86400", // Number of seconds delay.
  },
};

const run = async () => {
  try {
    const data = await sqsClient.send(new CreateQueueCommand(params));
    console.log("Success", data);
    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_createqueue.js 

This example code can be found here on GitHub.

Getting the URL for 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_getqueueurl.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 to list your queues, which must include the name of the queue whose URL you want. Call the GetQueueUrlCommand method. The function returns the URL of the specified queue.

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

// Set the parameters
const params = { QueueName: "SQS_QUEUE_NAME" };

const run = async () => {
  try {
    const data = await sqsClient.send(new GetQueueUrlCommand(params));
    console.log("Success", data);
    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_getqueueurl.js 

This example code can be found here on GitHub.

Deleting 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_deletequeue.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 to delete a queue, which consists of the URL of the queue you want to delete. Call the DeleteQueueCommand method.

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

// Set the parameters
const params = { 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 DeleteQueueCommand(params));
    console.log("Success", data);
    return data; // For unit tests.
  } catch (err) {
    console.error(err, err.stack);
  }
};
run();

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

node sqs_deletequeue.js 

This example code can be found here on GitHub.