Consumer Library RabbitMQ

A lightweight TypeScript wrapper for the amqplib package that simplifies working with RabbitMQ. This library provides a clean API for common RabbitMQ operations with built-in connection management, automatic reconnection, and error handling.

Features

• Simple promise-based API for RabbitMQ operations
• Automatic reconnection with exponential backoff and jitter
• Connection health checks
• Typed message handling
• Easy queue, exchange, and binding management
• JSON serialization and deserialization

Installation

pnpm add @snapstack/rabbitmq

Usage

Basic Setup

import { RabbitMQ } from '@snapstack/rabbitmq';

// Create a new RabbitMQ instance
const rabbit = new RabbitMQ({
  url: 'amqp://localhost',
  reconnectTimeoutMs: 5000,
  prefetch: 10,
});

// Connect to RabbitMQ
await rabbit.connect();

Publishing Messages

// Publish a message to an exchange
await rabbit.assertExchange('notifications', 'fanout');
await rabbit.publish('notifications', '', { 
  userId: '123', 
  message: 'Hello World' 
});

// Using direct exchange with routing keys
await rabbit.assertExchange('tasks', 'direct');
await rabbit.publish('tasks', 'high-priority', { 
  taskId: '456', 
  data: { action: 'process' } 
});

Consuming Messages

// Define a typed message handler
interface TaskMessage {
  taskId: string;
  data: {
    action: string;
    [key: string]: any;
  };
}

// Assert queue and exchange
await rabbit.assertQueue('task-processor');
await rabbit.assertExchange('tasks', 'direct');
await rabbit.bindQueue('task-processor', 'tasks', 'high-priority');

// Consume messages
await rabbit.consume<TaskMessage>('task-processor', async (message, raw) => {
  console.log(`Processing task ${message.taskId}`);
  // Process the message
  // No need to manually acknowledge - handled automatically
});

Health Checks

// Check if the connection is healthy
if (rabbit.isHealthy()) {
  console.log('RabbitMQ connection is healthy');
} else {
  console.log('RabbitMQ connection is not healthy');
}

Cleanup

// Close the connection when done
await rabbit.close();

Configuration Options

Option	Type	Description	Default
url	string	The RabbitMQ connection URL	Required
prefetch	number	Maximum number of unacknowledged messages	undefined
reconnectTimeoutMs	number	Base timeout for reconnection attempts	5000
logger	function	Custom logging function	console.log

Error Handling

The library automatically handles connection errors and attempts to reconnect with exponential backoff and jitter. Message processing errors are logged and the message is rejected (not requeued).

License

MIT