QStash is an HTTP based messaging and scheduling solution for serverless and edge runtimes.
It is 100% built on stateless HTTP requests and designed for:
- Serverless functions (AWS Lambda ...)
- Cloudflare Workers (see the example)
- Fastly Compute@Edge
- Next.js, including edge
- Deno
- Client side web/mobile applications
- WebAssembly
- and other environments where HTTP is preferred over TCP.
QStash is the message broker between your serverless apps. You send an HTTP request to QStash, that includes a destination, a payload and optional settings. We durably store your message and will deliver it to the destination API via HTTP. In case the destination is not ready to receive the message, we will retry the message later, to guarentee at-least-once delivery.
npm install @upstash/qstash
Go to upstash and copy the token.
import { Client } from "@upstash/qstash";
/**
* Import a fetch polyfill only if you are using node prior to v18.
* This is not necessary for nextjs, deno or cloudflare workers.
*/
import "isomorphic-fetch";
const c = new Client({
token: "<QSTASH_TOKEN>",
});
const res = await c.publishJSON({
url: "https://my-api...",
// or topic: "the name or id of a topic"
body: {
hello: "world",
},
});
console.log(res);
// { messageId: "msg_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" }
How to receive a message depends on your http server. The Receiver.verify
method should be called by you as the first step in your handler function.
import { Receiver } from "@upstash/qstash";
const r = new Receiver({
currentSigningKey: "..",
nextSigningKey: "..",
});
const isValid = await r.verify({
/**
* The signature from the `Upstash-Signature` header.
*
* Please note that on some platforms (e.g. Vercel or Netlify) you might
* receive the header in lower case: `upstash-signature`
*
*/
signature: "string";
/**
* The raw request body.
*/
body: "string";
})
See the documentation for details.