protomq

Dynamic MQTT Broker that speaks protobufs

Get Started

1. Clone this repo
2. run npm i (make sure NodeJS installed, i used v18 in dev)
3. copy the environment example file: cp .env.example.json .env.json
4. edit .env.json with the local path to your .proto files
5. run npm run import-protos to copy over and transform the files
6. run npm run build-web to build protomq
7. run npm start
8. visit the web URL it gives you (like http://localhost:5173/)
9. connect an MQTT client: mqtt://localhost:1884
10. see broker info update in the web:

• clients change on connect/disconnect
• subscriptions change on subscribe/unsubscribe
• message log updates as new messages are published (top message is newest)