This is an MQTT client example project that showcases how you can use HiveMQ Cloud with the MQTT.js Client. The example project covers the basic MQTT functionality: Connecting MQTT clients to your HiveMQ Cloud cluster, subscribing to topics and publishing data (sending and receiving messages using the MQTT protocol).

The Javascript client used here supports MQTT v3.1, v3.1.1 and v5. You can find documentation for this client library here: https://www.hivemq.com/blog/mqtt-client-library-mqtt-js/.

This example repository is easily and clearly structured, so you can start quickly: This readme file is your starting point. Here we will describe what you have to do step-by-step to get started with this example. example.js is a simple implementation that demonstrates the core functionality of an MQTT Client. Follow the instructions in the following paragraphs to get started yourself.

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By signing up for HiveMQ Cloud you will automatically get access to a HiveMQ Cloud Basic cluster. HiveMQ Cloud Basic is our smallest package that allows you to connect up to 100 MQTT clients for free and test the full MQTT functionality.

The HiveMQ Cloud Quick Start Guide gives you step-by-step instructions on how to set up your HiveMQ Cloud account, create clusters, and connect MQTT clients.

After signing up, you have a running HiveMQ Cloud cluster, that you can use in this example. Now clone this repository into your local IDE.

For using the code examples, you need to install MQTT.js. Execute this command in the terminal of your IDE to install all dependencies.

npm install

To define the HiveMQ Cloud cluster which should be targeted, you need to fill the placeholders in the code with your host name, username and password. The host name can be found in the Details section of the Overview tab of your cluster.

After the cluster is created, add a set of credentials that you can use in this example or future implementations. Use any secure username and password you desire. The username and password are the values used as Client Credentials that you just created.

This example project covers the core functionality of an MQTT client interacting with HiveMQ Cloud. To securely connect the MQTT client with HiveMQ Cloud you need to enable TLS. Use your username and password, to authenticate your MQTT client at HiveMQ Cloud. To connect the client, use the port 8883 that is standard for secure MQTT communication.

const options = {
  username: '<your_username>',
  password: '<your_password>',
  rejectUnauthorized: false
};

const client = mqtt.connect('tls://your_host:port', options);

The code located inside the example.js connects to the configured HiveMQ Cloud Broker. This is a ready-set example that can simply be run after inputting your credentials by executing this command in the terminal of your IDE.

node example.js

The code first subscribes to the topic filter 'messages'.
That means the MQTT client receives all messages that are published to this topic filter.

client.subscribe('messages');

Then the code publishes a message to the same topic.

client.publish('messages', 'Hello, this message was received!');

The callback gets triggered when a message is received and prints it to the console.

client.on('message', function(topic, message) {
  console.log(String.fromCharCode.apply(null, message)); // need to convert the byte array to string
});

There are also callbacks for a successful connection and when an error occurs.

If you want to learn more about MQTT, visit the MQTT Essentials guide, that explains the core of MQTT concepts, its features and other essential information. Learn about MQTT.js at the official Github repository.

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