u8-mqtt

A JavaScript MQTT client using async/await support QOS-0 and QOS-1. for use in modern ES6 environments: the Browser, NodeJS, and Deno.

• Zero external dependencies.
• Small bundle footprint.
• Tree-shaking friendly.

Use ExpressJS-like router to handle publish messages for matching topics.

• Static (/foo, /foo/bar)
• Parameter (/:title, /books/:title, /books/:genre/:title)
• Parameter w/ Suffix (/movies/:title.mp4, /movies/:title.(mp4|mov))
• Optional Parameters (/:title?, /books/:title?, /books/:genre/:title?)
• Wildcards (*, /books/*, /books/:genre/*)

(Thanks to @lukeed and the excellent regexparam library!)

Docs

• API docs
• See u8-mqtt-packet for details on packet encode and decoding.

Targeting MQTT-3.1.1 (v4) and MQTT-5.0.0 (v5) compatibility.

Use

• from Web CDN
• from Web bundler like Rollup or ESBuild
• from NodeJS
• from Deno

1import mqtt_client from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/u8-mqtt/esm/web/index.js'
2// or import mqtt_client from 'u8-mqtt'
3
4let my_mqtt = mqtt_client()
5  .with_websock('wss://test.mosquitto.org:8081')
6  // or .with_tcp('tcp://test.mosquitto.org:1883')
7  .with_autoreconnect()
8
9await my_mqtt.connect()
10
11my_mqtt.subscribe_topic(
12  'u8-mqtt/demo-simple/:topic',
13  (pkt, params, ctx) => {
14    console.log('topic packet', params, pkt, pkt.json())
15  })
16
17await my_mqtt.json_send(
18  'u8-mqtt/demo-simple/live',
19  { note: 'from README example',
20    live: new Date().toISOString() })

Module size

Built for small bundle footprint with ES Modules (ESM) using embedded u8-mqtt-packet and regexparam libraries. (See BundlePhobia page)

module	brotli	minified
u8-mqtt	6587 B	19962 B
u8-mqtt/esm/v5.min.js	6504 B	19789 B
u8-mqtt/esm/v4.min.js	5420 B	15379 B

(automated sizing report)

MQTT Client sizes

minifeid	(x)	Project	Measurement
187.0KB	12x	MQTT.js	curl -sL https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/mqtt@4.0.1/dist/mqtt.min.js | wc -c
32.3KB	2x	paho	curl -sL https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/paho-mqtt@1.1.0/paho-mqtt.min.js | wc -c
19.8KB	1.3x	u8-mqtt v5	cat ./u8-mqtt/esm/web/v5.min.js | wc -c
15.4KB	1x	u8-mqtt v4	cat ./u8-mqtt/esm/web/v4.min.js | wc -c

Prior Art

The u8-mqtt project was inspired by mqtt and mqtt-packet written for NodeJS. The codecs of those project are written with a NodeJS ecosystem in mind: Buffer, EventEmitter, Streams.

License

BSD-2-Clause