NSQ is a real-time distributed messaging platform designed to operate at scale, handling billions of messages per day. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install NSQ on Windows 10.
Before starting, make sure you have the following prerequisites installed:
To check if Git is installed on your system, open the command prompt and type the following command:
git --version
If it's installed, you will see the version number. If not, you need to download and install Git from https://git-scm.com/downloads.
To check if Go is installed on your system, open the command prompt and type the following command:
go version
If it's installed, you will see the version number. If not, you need to download and install Go from https://golang.org/dl/.
To download NSQ, open the command prompt and type the following command:
go get github.com/nsqio/nsq
This command will download the latest version of NSQ and all its dependencies to your Go workspace.
Go to the NSQ directory by entering the following command:
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/nsqio/nsq
Then, build NSQ by entering the following command:
go build
This will build the NSQ binaries which can be found in the same directory.
Now that NSQ is built, let's test it. Open two command prompts and navigate to the NSQ directory in both of them.
In the first command prompt, start the NSQ lookup daemon by entering the following command:
.\nsqlookupd.exe
In the second command prompt, start the NSQ daemon by entering the following command:
.\nsqd.exe --lookupd-tcp-address=127.0.0.1:4160
This will start the NSQ daemon and connect it to the lookup daemon. Now, let's publish a message to NSQ.
In a third command prompt, navigate to the NSQ directory and enter the following command:
.\nsq_pub.exe --topic=test --message="Hello, World!"
This will publish a message with the topic "test" and content "Hello, World!" to NSQ. You should see the message in the second command prompt.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed NSQ on Windows 10 and tested its functionality. Now you can use NSQ for real-time distributed messaging applications.
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