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Developer Guides

The Developer Guides help developers connect clients to EMQX, process MQTT data, integrate with external systems, and use advanced EMQX features. The main contents in this chapter include:

  • Client SDK provides SDK examples for connecting to EMQX with C, Java, Go, Python, and JavaScript MQTT clients.

  • Use curl with EMQX shows how to publish and subscribe to MQTT topics from the command line.

  • Use Node-RED with EMQX shows how to connect Node-RED to EMQX and build MQTT message flows.

  • Tutorials provides practical guides for MQTT programming and common EMQX development scenarios.

  • Rule Engine introduces the built-in data processing engine that lets you extract, filter, enrich, and transform IoT data in real time, working in conjunction with Data Integration.

  • Smart Data Hub provides an all-in-one solution for managing schemas, validating data, and transforming MQTT messages in real time.

  • Data Integration explains how to connect EMQX with external data systems, including databases, message queues, and cloud services, using Sink and Source components.

  • Flow Designer (EMQX Enterprise feature) is a visual, no-code tool for building data processing pipelines by connecting rules, actions, and integrations in a graphical interface.

  • Advanced Features introduces advanced capabilities such as Message Queue, MQTT over WebSocket, MQTT over QUIC, Cluster Linking, File Transfer over MQTT, Multi-Protocol Gateway, and client attributes.

  • EMQX AI introduces AI-related capabilities, including MCP over MQTT, MCP Bridge, SDKs, and real-time audio and video AI services.

  • Architecture covers EMQX clustering, durable storage, the inflight window and message queue, and message retransmission.

  • MQTT Reference provides reference information for MQTT protocol versions, terminology, features, and reason codes.