Gathering detailed insights and metrics for node-opcua-samples
Gathering detailed insights and metrics for node-opcua-samples
Unlocking the Full Potential of OPC UA with Typescript and NodeJS - http://node-opcua.github.io/
Installations
npm install node-opcua-samplesDeveloper Guide
BETA
Typescript
No
Module System
N/A
Node Version
22.15.0
NPM Version
lerna/8.2.2/node@v22.15.0+x64 (linux)
Score
55.6
Supply Chain
49.2
Quality
86.6
Maintenance
100
Vulnerability
97.6
License
Releases
222
Languages
8
TypeScript
JavaScript
XSLT
Shell
C#
Batchfile
Makefile
Dockerfile
TypeScript (84.75%)
JavaScript (15.09%)
XSLT (0.04%)
Shell (0.04%)
C# (0.04%)
Batchfile (0.02%)
Makefile (0.01%)
Dockerfile (0.01%)
Developer
node-opcua
Download Statistics
Total Downloads
0
Last Day
0
Last Week
0
Last Month
0
Last Year
0
GitHub Statistics
MIT License
1,549 Stars
4,608 Commits
495 Forks
84 Watchers
18 Branches
73 Contributors
Updated on Jul 11, 2025
Maintainers
1
Package Meta Information
Latest Version
2.156.0
Package Id
node-opcua-samples@2.156.0
Unpacked Size
158.74 kB
Size
32.32 kB
File Count
38
NPM Version
lerna/8.2.2/node@v22.15.0+x64 (linux)
Node Version
22.15.0
Published on
Jun 08, 2025
Total Downloads
Cumulative downloads
Total Downloads
NaN
Last Day
0%
NaN
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Last Week
0%
NaN
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Last Month
0%
NaN
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Last Year
0%
NaN
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Weekly Downloads
Monthly Downloads
Yearly Downloads
Dependencies
21
@types/bcryptjs@types/underscore@types/yargsbcryptjschalkeasy-tableenv-pathsnode-opcuanode-opcua-address-spacenode-opcua-address-space-for-conformance-testingnode-opcua-assertnode-opcua-client-proxynode-opcua-cryptonode-opcua-packet-analyzernode-opcua-pkinode-opcua-server-configurationnode-opcua-utilsnode-opcua-vendor-diagnosticsprintf-jstreeifyyargs
node-opcua
node-opcua is a full OPC UA stack for NodeJS and the Browser written in Typescript.
Node-opcua is the OPC-UA stack running on NodeJS.
Why NodeJS ?
Because NodeJs is a great framework for designing high-performing asynchronous applications.
Getting started
installing node-opcua as a node package
$ mkdir mytest
$ cd mytest
$ npm init
$ npm install node-opcua --unsafe-perms
$ # Create your first app.js file!
installing node-opcua samples as a node package
1$ mkdir myserver 2$ cd myserver 3$ npm init 4$ npm install node-opcua-samples --unsafe-perms 5$ ./node_modules/.bin/simple_server
or
1$ ./node_modules/.bin/simple_client -e "opc.tcp://opcserver.mAutomation.net:4841" -n="ns=1;s=EVR2.system.RTC_SEC"
or
1$ ./node_modules/.bin/simple_client -e "opc.tcp://opcuademo.sterfive.com:26543"
Minimum Nodejs requirement
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Nodejs version 18 or above
tutorials and guided examples
Sponsors & Backers
The funding of node-opcua entirely relies on its users.
We appreciate that, once you have evaluated the software and you have decided to use it in one of your applications, you consider supporting our effort by either financially contributing to one of our sponsor programs:
Grants ensure the following:
- 🔨 Long-term maintenance of the project
- ⚙️ maintain the website and continuous integration platform
- 🛣 Progress on the road map
- 🐛 Quick responses to bug reports
- 🚀 New features & enhancements
- ⚖️ representing the node-opcua user community at the OPC Foundation
Sponsors
Backers
Thank you to all our backers! Become a backer
Contributors
This project exists thanks to all the people who contribute.
Getting professional support
To get professional support, consider subscribing to the node-opcua membership community:
Registered members have access to an extended set of online documentation.
Registered members can post and query Sterfive for any question related to NodeOPCUA in a private chat room.
or contact sterfive for dedicated consulting and more advanced support or for a certified version of node-opcua. (contact@sterfive.com).
Road-map
If your company would like to participate and influence the development of future versions of node-opcua please contact sterfive.
Those are the items we would like to achieve in the next version of the API.
- improved documentation
- Compliance testing and certification (CTT)
- Pub-sub support
- support for redundancy
- session-less transactions
- WebSocket transport
- JTokens and OAuth
- reversed connection
- more tutorials
Advanced topics
installing node-opcua from source
running the demo server from source
$ git clone https://github.com/node-opcua/node-opcua.git
$ cd node-opcua
$ npm install -g pnpm
$ pnpm recursive install
$ pnpm build
$ node packages/node-opcua-samples/bin/simple_server
running the demo client from source
$ git clone https://github.com/node-opcua/node-opcua.git
$ cd node-opcua
$ npm install -g pnpm
$ pnpm recursive install
$ pnpm build
$ node packages/node-opcua-samples/bin/simple_client.js -e "opc.tcp://opcserver.mAutomation.net:4841" -n="ns=1;s=EVR2.system.RTC_SEC"
Tutorials
-
more tutorials are available in the book (https://leanpub.com/node-opcuabyexample-edition2024)
-
more advanced examples and training material are available for the NodeOPCUA Subscription members at (https://support.sterfive.com)
API reference
-
check out the API documentation
Contributing
$ git clone git://github.com/node-opcua/node-opcua.git
$ cd node-opcua
$ npm install -g pnpm
$ pnpm install
$ pnpm recursive install
$ pnpm build
Supported Features
| Service | ||
|---|---|---|
| Discovery Service Set | ||
| FindServers() | :white_check_mark: | |
| GetEndpoints() | :white_check_mark: | |
| RegisterServer() | :white_check_mark: | |
| RegisterServer2() | :white_check_mark: | |
| FindServersOnNetwork() | :white_check_mark: | |
| Secure Channel Service Set | ||
| OpenSecureChannel() | :white_check_mark: | |
| CloseSecureChannel() | :white_check_mark: | |
| Session Service Set | ||
| CreateSession() | :white_check_mark: | |
| CloseSession() | :white_check_mark: | |
| ActivateSession() | :white_check_mark: | |
| Cancel() | ||
| View Service Set | ||
| Browse() | :white_check_mark: | |
| BrowseNext() | :white_check_mark: | |
| TranslateBrowsePathsToNodeIds() | :white_check_mark: | |
| RegisterNodes() | :white_check_mark: | |
| UnregisterNodes() | :white_check_mark: | |
| Attribute Service Set | ||
| Read() | :white_check_mark: | |
| Write() | :white_check_mark: | |
| HistoryRead() | :waxing_crescent_moon: | |
| HistoryUpdate() | :waxing_crescent_moon: | |
| MonitoredItems Service Set | ||
| CreateMonitoredItems() | :white_check_mark: | |
| ModifyMonitoredItems() | :white_check_mark: | |
| SetMonitoringMode() | :white_check_mark: | |
| SetTriggering() | :new_moon: | |
| DeleteMonitoredItems() | :white_check_mark: | |
| Subscription Service Set | ||
| CreateSubscription() | :white_check_mark: | |
| ModifySubscription() | :white_check_mark: | |
| DeleteSubscriptions() | :white_check_mark: | |
| Publish() | :white_check_mark: | |
| Republish() | :white_check_mark: | |
| TransferSubscriptions() | :white_check_mark: | |
| Node Management Service Set | ||
| AddNodes() | :new_moon: | |
| AddReferences() | :new_moon: | |
| DeleteNodes() | :new_moon: | |
| DeleteReferences() | :new_moon: | |
| Query Service Set | ||
| QueryFirst() | :new_moon: | |
| QueryNext() | :new_moon: | |
| PubSUB | as a commercial module | :white_check_mark: |
| GDS | as a commercial module | :white_check_mark: |
| Transport Protocol | ||
| Transport | Status | Comment |
| UA-TCP UA-SC UA Binary | :white_check_mark: | OPC.TCP - Binary |
| SOAP-HTTP WS-SC UA Binary | :new_moon: | HTTP/HTTPS - Binary |
| SOAP-HTTP WS-SC UA XML | :new_moon: | |
| SOAP-HTTP WS-SC UA XML-UA Binary | :new_moon: | |
| Security Policies | ||
| Policy | Status | Comment |
| None | :white_check_mark: | |
| Basic128Rsa15 | :white_check_mark: | deprecated in 1.04 |
| Basic256 | :white_check_mark: | deprecated in 1.04 |
| Basic256Sha256 | :white_check_mark: | |
| Authentication | Status | Comment |
| Anonymous | :white_check_mark: | |
| User Name Password | :white_check_mark: | |
| X509 Certificate | :white_check_mark: | |
| client facets | ||
| Base Client Behaviour | :white_check_mark: | |
| AddressSpace Lookup | :white_check_mark: | |
| Attribute Read | :white_check_mark: | |
| DataChange Subscription | :white_check_mark: | |
| DataAccess | :white_check_mark: | |
| Discovery | :white_check_mark: | |
| Event Subscription | :white_check_mark: | |
| Method call | :white_check_mark: | |
| Historical Access | :first_quarter_moon: | |
| Advanced Type | :white_check_mark: | |
| Programming | :new_moon: | |
| Auditing | :first_quarter_moon: | |
| Redundancy | :new_moon: | Sponsors wanted |
| server profiles | ||
| Core Server | :white_check_mark: | |
| Data Access Server | :white_check_mark: | |
| Embedded Server | :white_check_mark: | |
| Nano Embedded Device Server | :white_check_mark: | |
| Micro Embedded Device Server | :white_check_mark: | |
| Standard DataChange Subscription Server | :white_check_mark: | |
| Standard Event Subscription Server | :white_check_mark: | |
| Standard UA Server | :white_check_mark: | |
| Redundancy Transparent Server | :new_moon: | Sponsors wanted |
| Redundancy Visible Server | :new_moon: | Sponsors wanted |
| Node Management Server | :new_moon: | Sponsors wanted |
| Auditing Server | :first_quarter_moon: | |
| Complex Type Server | :white_check_mark: | (sponsored) |
| Session Diagnostics | :white_check_mark: | (sponsored) |
| Subscription Diagnostics | :white_check_mark: | (sponsored) |
| Alarms & Conditions | :white_check_mark: | (sponsored) |
| Pub & Sub | :new_moon: | Sponsors wanted |
Feedback
-
if you're using node-opcua in one of your project, please feel free to leave a comment and a quick description in the wiki
-
if you have a particular wish or found a issue, let us known and create an issue
About licensing
The node-opcua core module is copyrighted and licencsd under the term of the "The MIT License".
This means that :
- node-opcua comes without any warranty of any kind.
- you can freely re-use in an open-source application or a commercial application
- you have to include the software copyright notice in all copies or substantial portions of the software.
You are strongly encouraged to apply to our NodeOPCUA Membership to get additional benefits and support.
Copyright
Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Sterfive SAS - 833264583 RCS ORLEANS - France (https://www.sterfive.com) Copyright (c) 2014-2022 Etienne Rossignon
No vulnerabilities found.
Reason
30 commit(s) and 8 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
Reason
no dangerous workflow patterns detected
Reason
security policy file detected
Details
- Info: security policy file detected: SECURITY.md:1
- Info: Found linked content: SECURITY.md:1
- Info: Found disclosure, vulnerability, and/or timelines in security policy: SECURITY.md:1
- Info: Found text in security policy: SECURITY.md:1
Reason
license file detected
Details
- Info: project has a license file: LICENSE:0
- Info: FSF or OSI recognized license: MIT License: LICENSE:0
Reason
no binaries found in the repo
Reason
1 existing vulnerabilities detected
Details
- Warn: Project is vulnerable to: GHSA-v6h2-p8h4-qcjw
Reason
detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
Details
- Warn: no topLevel permission defined: .github/workflows/workflow.yml:1
- Info: no jobLevel write permissions found
Reason
Found 2/29 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
Reason
no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
Reason
SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
Details
- Warn: 0 commits out of 7 are checked with a SAST tool
Reason
dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 0
Details
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/workflow.yml:115: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/node-opcua/node-opcua/workflow.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/workflow.yml:117: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/node-opcua/node-opcua/workflow.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/workflow.yml:120: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/node-opcua/node-opcua/workflow.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: third-party GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/workflow.yml:138: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/node-opcua/node-opcua/workflow.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/workflow.yml:28: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/node-opcua/node-opcua/workflow.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/workflow.yml:30: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/node-opcua/node-opcua/workflow.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/workflow.yml:33: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/node-opcua/node-opcua/workflow.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/workflow.yml:60: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/node-opcua/node-opcua/workflow.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/workflow.yml:62: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/node-opcua/node-opcua/workflow.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/workflow.yml:65: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/node-opcua/node-opcua/workflow.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/workflow.yml:87: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/node-opcua/node-opcua/workflow.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: GitHub-owned GitHubAction not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/workflow.yml:89: update your workflow using https://app.stepsecurity.io/secureworkflow/node-opcua/node-opcua/workflow.yml/master?enable=pin
- Warn: containerImage not pinned by hash: dockertest/Dockerfile:1: pin your Docker image by updating node:20.19.2-bookworm-slim to node:20.19.2-bookworm-slim@sha256:7cd3fbc830c75c92256fe1122002add9a1c025831af8770cd0bf8e45688ef661
- Warn: containerImage not pinned by hash: dockertest/DockerfileNode18:1: pin your Docker image by updating node:latest to node:latest@sha256:e7db48bc35ee8d2e8d1511dfe779d78076966bd101ab074ea2858da8d59efb7f
- Warn: containerImage not pinned by hash: packages/node-opcua-local-discovery-server/Dockerfile:1: pin your Docker image by updating node:slim to node:slim@sha256:1b044a60874f1b57ac8c4e708ddb3a00e55b34586ebbacce09a48796dafcc799
- Warn: containerImage not pinned by hash: packages/playground/github1422/Dockerfile:1: pin your Docker image by updating mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:8.0 to mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:8.0@sha256:e6748a3b3d8cea753f643cacac0e577d8c409285b3924232db1354693bdbd3d7
- Warn: npmCommand not pinned by hash: dockertest/Dockerfile:2
- Warn: npmCommand not pinned by hash: packages/node-opcua-local-discovery-server/Dockerfile:4
- Warn: nugetCommand not pinned by hash: packages/playground/github1422/Dockerfile:5: pin your dependecies by either enabling central package management (https://learn.microsoft.com/nuget/consume-packages/Central-Package-Management) or using a lockfile (https://learn.microsoft.com/nuget/consume-packages/package-references-in-project-files#locking-dependencies)
- Warn: npmCommand not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/workflow.yml:70
- Warn: npmCommand not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/workflow.yml:93
- Warn: npmCommand not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/workflow.yml:125
- Warn: npmCommand not pinned by hash: .github/workflows/workflow.yml:127
- Info: 0 out of 11 GitHub-owned GitHubAction dependencies pinned
- Info: 0 out of 1 third-party GitHubAction dependencies pinned
- Info: 0 out of 4 containerImage dependencies pinned
- Info: 0 out of 6 npmCommand dependencies pinned
- Info: 0 out of 1 nugetCommand dependencies pinned
Reason
project is not fuzzed
Details
- Warn: no fuzzer integrations found
Score
5.4
/10
Last Scanned on 2025-07-07
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