Official SQS poller for JavaScript

[nathanpeck]

SDK's for other languages such as Ruby have an automatic queue poller class: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-ruby/v2/api/Aws/SQS/QueuePoller.html

Node currently does not. There are several community created pollers such as Squiss, but these are unmaintained: https://www.npmjs.com/package/squiss

We need an official poller class, built into the AWS SDK for JS, which allows me to just start polling, and have a function in my code get called whenever there is a message to receive.

[aaronpeterson]

I cannot upvote this enough. We have been plagued with issues of this library quietly dying when receiveMessage() is called in any kind of loop. It used to be okay but since the SQS outage a few weeks ago the problem is now 2-3 times per day. Queues literally die and stop sending messages while the messages in them back up and the js client continues receiving empty results.

Still not solved: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js/issues/367

Still not solved: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js/issues/1005

It worked good for a while with httpOptions: timeout: set however since the outage (which impacted all queues, not just FIFO but whatever) around April 17th the problem is now daily.

Let us accept that the only practical use of receiveMessage() is in a loop because queues. Until either SQS or this library has an official means of practical consuming I highly recommend you find a non-sqs alternative such as RabbitMq hosted on your own instance.

There should be a warning about this in the docs.

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