Socket.IO AWS SQS adapter

The @socket.io/aws-sqs-adapter package allows broadcasting packets between multiple Socket.IO servers.

Unlike the existing socket.io-sqs package, this package supports binary payloads and dynamic namespaces.

Table of contents

Supported features
Installation
Usage
Options
License

Supported features

Feature	`socket.io` version	Support
Socket management	`4.0.0`	✅ YES (since version `0.1.0`)
Inter-server communication	`4.1.0`	✅ YES (since version `0.1.0`)
Broadcast with acknowledgements	`4.5.0`	✅ YES (since version `0.1.0`)
Connection state recovery	`4.6.0`	❌ NO

Installation

npm install @socket.io/aws-sqs-adapter

Usage

import { SNS } from "@aws-sdk/client-sns";
import { SQS } from "@aws-sdk/client-sqs";
import { Server } from "socket.io";
import { createAdapter } from "@socket.io/aws-sqs-adapter";

const snsClient = new SNS();
const sqsClient = new SQS();

const io = new Server({
  adapter: createAdapter(snsClient, sqsClient)
});

// wait for the creation of the SQS queue
await io.of("/").adapter.init();

io.listen(3000);

Options

Name	Description	Default value
`topicName`	The name of the SNS topic.	`socket.io`
`topicTags`	The tags to apply to the new SNS topic.	`-`
`queuePrefix`	The prefix of the SQS queue.	`socket.io`
`queueTags`	The tags to apply to the new SQS queue.	`-`
`heartbeatInterval`	The number of ms between two heartbeats.	`5_000`
`heartbeatTimeout`	The number of ms without heartbeat before we consider a node down.	`10_000`

License