Google Cloud Pub/Sub: Node.js Client

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

• Using the client library
• Samples
• Versioning
• Contributing
• License

Using the client library

1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.

2. Enable billing for your project.

3. Enable the Google Cloud Pub/Sub API.

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

5. Install the client library:

    npm install --save @google-cloud/pubsub

6. Try an example:

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

async function quickstart(
  projectId = 'your-project-id', // Your Google Cloud Platform project ID
  topicName = 'my-topic' // Name for the new topic to create
) {
  // Instantiates a client
  const pubsub = new PubSub({projectId});

  // Creates the new topic
  const [topic] = await pubsub.createTopic(topicName);
  console.log(`Topic ${topic.name} created.`);
}

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

What's Next

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

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