Simple kafka promise

This library is based on node-rdkafka and aim to provide a simple producer and consumer wrapped with promise to allow the use of async / await with minimal configuration and overhead.

This library is fully written in TypeScript.

Use s3pweb/alpine-kafka docker image with node-rdkafka included to shorten build time (version tag is the version of node-rdkafka).

Breaking change in v4 from 3.x.x

producer: By default node-rdkafka will set request.required.acks at -1. You can override it by setting "request.required.acks" or "acks" in the config object.

Breaking change in v3 from 2.x.x

2 different producers are available

Breaking changes in v2 from 1.x.x

Producer and consumer now are classes and have a constructor
No more direct need for node-config and a logger

Installation

npm install @s3pweb/simple-kafka-promise

Configuration

Minimal configuration for the consumer is:

{ "metadata.broker.list": "0.0.0.0:9094", "group.id": "test.group" }

Minimal configuration for the producer is:

{ "metadata.broker.list": "0.0.0.0:9094" }

This project is based on node-rdkafka and supports the same configuration options. Go here for more details.

Create a consumer instance

const KafkaConsumer = require('@s3pweb/simple-kafka-promise').KafkaConsumer

// Create a new instance
const consumer = new KafkaConsumer({ 'metadata.broker.list': '0.0.0.0:9094', 'group.id': 'test.group' }, 1000)

// Connect
await consumer.connect(['topicName'])

// Consume messages
const messagesArray = await consumer.listen(100, true)

// Disconnect the consumer
await consumer.disconnect()

To use with typescript, just change the import to

import { KafkaConsumer } from '@s3pweb/simple-kafka-promise';

SSL

To connect with SSL, use:

  const consumer = new KafkaConsumer({
    'metadata.broker.list': [
      'broker1:9093',
      'broker2:9093',
      'broker3:9093'
    ],
    'group.id': 'test-consumer.group',
    'security.protocol': 'ssl',
    'enable.ssl.certificate.verification': true,
    'ssl.ca.location': '/path/to/the/CA/certificate.crt'
  })

SASL

To connect with SASL, use:

  const consumer = new KafkaConsumer({
    'metadata.broker.list': [
      'broker1:9094',
      'broker2:9094',
      'broker3:9094'
    ],
    'group.id': 'test-sasl.group',
    'security.protocol': 'sasl_ssl',
    'sasl.username': 'username',
    'sasl.password': 'password',
    'sasl.mechanisms': 'SCRAM-SHA-256',
    'enable.ssl.certificate.verification': true,
    'ssl.ca.location': '/path/to/the/CA/certificate.crt'
  })

Create a producer instance

const KafkaProducer = require('@s3pweb/simple-kafka-promise').KafkaProducer

// Create a new instance
const producer = new KafkaProducer({ 'metadata.broker.list': '0.0.0.0:9094' }, '')

// Connect
await producer.connect(['topicName'])

// Produce some messages
const offset = await producer.sendMessage(topicName, { message: `My message.` }, 0, null)

// Disconnect
await producer.disconnect()

To use with typescript, just change the import to

import { KafkaProducer } from '@s3pweb/simple-kafka-promise';

Example

To produce some messages take a look at ./examples/producer.js and to consume some messages take a look at ./examples/consumer.js.

If you have docker, you can use ./examples/docker-compose.yaml to start one zookeeper and one kafka stack on your machine. This stack comes with kafkamanager and kafkadrop for easy monitoring and debugging.

Docker

If you want to build a docker image based on alpine linux, you need to add some packages to the base image. Go here for more details.

New releases

To create a new release, you only need to add your code (don't forget the mocks and the interfaces) and create a new tag. DO NOT push the code to NPM, create a version on Github or send a message for the new release. It will be done automatically by Github Actions.

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