https://github.com/khanguslee/mqtt-vs-http

An investigation into MQTT and HTTP
https://github.com/khanguslee/mqtt-vs-http

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An investigation into MQTT and HTTP

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/khanguslee/mqtt-vs-http
• Owner: khanguslee
• Created: 2019-02-10T04:38:53.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-02-10T07:32:38.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-20T12:56:49.171Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: http, iot, mqtt
• Language: JavaScript
• Size: 42 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# MQTT-vs-HTTP

An investigation into MQTT and HTTP. As a project to learn MQTT, this repository aims to investigate whether the MQTT protocol is faster than using HTTP. To do this, we will send the same data to a central server and time how long this trip takes for both protocols.

# HTTP

## Getting started with HTTP

In the HTTP folder, make sure you download all dependencies using `npm install`. You will need to run the server and client in two different terminal sessions.

To run the server:

```bash

    npm start

```

To run the client:

```bash

    node client.js [--number NUMBER]

```

where NUMBER is the number of times you would like to send an HTTP request to the server.

# MQTT

## Getting started with MQTT

You will first need to download an MQTT broker which acts as a central server that routes data, sent by publishers, to subscribers of a specific topic.

Download the [mosquitto broker](https://mosquitto.org/download/) to run locally.

Download node libraries by running `npm install` in the MQTT folder.

To run the program:

```bash

node app.js [--number NUMBER]

```

where NUMBER is the number of times you would like to publish to the topic.