Ability to connect to a MQTT broker

[debjeetsarkar]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
There is no comprehensive tooling while working with MQTT brokers.

Describe the solution you'd like
A simple interface to connect to an MQTT broker.
Subscribe to topics
Publish to topics

Describe alternatives you've considered
MQTT Lens

[liyasthomas]

Will consider implementing this 👍

[liyasthomas]

@debjeetsarkar can you provide a MQTT server address for testing?

[debjeetsarkar]

@liyasthomas , for testing we can use the following:
server: mqtt.eclipse.org
port: 1883

[NBTX]

It is impossible to work with raw TCP sockets in the browser (this would require a standalone application - though could be implemented with the proxy), however you can use a websocket implementation in postwoman: https://postwoman.io/realtime

[debjeetsarkar]

MQTT can communicate over WebSockets and the current implementation of PW works fine to connect to a broker (Example: wss://test.mosquitto.org:8081). However, the only thing missing is the UI ability to publish/subscribe to topics. Since these actions require sending Mqtt messages itself, it will be very useful to allow doing the same via UI.

Something similar to MQTTLens in chrome store.

[liyasthomas]

I think this could be implemented.

[NBTX]

I see, I was looking at this page and pointing out that the raw TCP (1883 and 8883) could not be implemented.

If all you need is a better interface / UX for working with Mqtt, that's easy enough to implement.

[rahulnpadalkar]

I would like to contribute.

[liyasthomas]

Here is a Vue example with MQTT server. We can clone this: https://codepen.io/fenwick/pen/XjZPPj

@rahulnpadalkar shall I assign this to you?

[rahulnpadalkar]

Yes sure!