This assumes you are familiar with the basic configurations needed to connect to Amazon Web Services (AWS) using NodeJS. If not, check out my article Getting Started with NodeJS aws-sdk.

The @aws-sdk/client-sqs package is used to interact with AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) in NodeJS. The npm list command can be used to determine if you have the @aws-sdk/client-sqs package installed. If not, the npm install command can be used to install the package. Once installed, your package.json should include the @aws-sdk/client-sqs package.

{
  "dependencies": {
    "@aws-sdk/client-sqs": "^3.693.0"
  }
}

Here is the minimal boilerplate code without any error handling to list your AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS) Queues using CommonJS.

import { SQSClient, ListQueuesCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-sqs";

const client   = new SQSClient({ region: "us-east-1" });
const params   = {}
const command  = new ListQueuesCommand(params);
const response = await client.send(command);

console.log(`response = ${JSON.stringify(response)}`)

If your app is an ES module, package.json will have "type": "module".

{
  "type":"module",
  "dependencies": {
    "@aws-sdk/client-sqs": "^3.693.0"
  }
}

In this scenario, you will use import instead of require.

import { SQSClient, ListQueuesCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-sqs";

Something like this should be returned.

{"$metadata":{"httpStatusCode":200,"requestId":"ad6aad8a-eee5-5e93-a813-f24e620a718e","attempts":1,"totalRetryDelay":0},"QueueUrls":["https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/123456789012/my-first-queue.fifo","https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/123456789012/my-second-queue.fifo"]}

Here is an example using an async function.

const { SQSClient, ListQueuesCommand } = require("@aws-sdk/client-sqs");
const client = new SQSClient({ region: "us-east-1" });

async function getQueueURLs() {
  const params = {
};
  const command = new ListQueuesCommand(params);
  return await client.send(command);
}

getQueueURLs()
  .then(
    response => {
      //response is really only needed for testing/debugging purposes, to see the full response
      //console.log(response)
      var queue_urls = response.QueueUrls
      console.log(`queue URLs => ${queue_urls}`);
    }
  )
  .catch(
    err => {
      console.error(err)
      process.exit(1)
    }
  )

Something like this should be returned.

{
  '$metadata': {
    httpStatusCode: 200,
    requestId: 'a5a5e228-3ea8-586f-b9f8-bd9d25d1aad2',
    extendedRequestId: undefined,
    cfId: undefined,
    attempts: 1,
    totalRetryDelay: 0
  },
  QueueUrls: [
    'https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/123456789012/my-first-queue.fifo',
    'https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/123456789012/my-second-queue.fifo'
  ]
}

queue URLs => [ 'https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/123456789012/my-first-queue.fifo', 'https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/123456789012/my-second-queue.fifo' ]

QueueNamePrefix can be used if you only want to return queues matching a certain queue name that begins with

import { SQSClient, ListQueuesCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-sqs";
const client = new SQSClient({ region: "us-east-1" });

async function getQueueURLs() {
  const params = {
    QueueNamePrefix: "my-first-queue.fifo"
  };
  const command = new ListQueuesCommand(params);
  return await client.send(command);
}

getQueueURLs()
  .then(
    response => {
      //response is really only needed for testing/debugging purposes, to see the full response
      //console.log(response)
      var queue_urls = response.QueueUrls
      console.log(`queue URLs => ${queue_urls}`);
    }
  )
  .catch(
    err => {
      console.error(err)
      process.exit(1)
    }
  )

If you want one and only one queue URL to be returned, you could determine if the length of the QueueUrls response is 1 (meaning there is one element in the list) and then create a variable named queue_url that contains the Queue URL.

import { SQSClient, ListQueuesCommand, ReceiveMessageCommand  } from "@aws-sdk/client-sqs";
const client = new SQSClient({ region: "us-east-1" });

async function getQueueURL() {
  const params = {
    QueueNamePrefix: "my-first-queue.fifo"
  };
  const command = new ListQueuesCommand(params);
  return await client.send(command);
}

getQueueURL()
  .then(
    response => {
      //response is really only needed for testing/debugging purposes, to see the full response
      //console.log(response)
      if (response.QueueUrls.length != 1) {
        console.error(`response.QueueUrls.length does NOT equal 1`);
        process.exit(1)
      } else {
        var queue_url = response.QueueUrls.toString()
        console.log(`queue URL => ${queue_url}`);
      }
    }
  )
  .catch(
    err => {
      console.error(err)
      process.exit(1)
    }
  )

Something like this should be returned.

]$ node app.js
queue URL => https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/123456789012/my-first-queue.fifo