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fastify-kafka

Fastify plugin to interact with Apache Kafka. Supports Kafka producer and consumer.
To achieve the best performances internally uses node-rdkafka.

Install

npm i fastify-kafka --save

Usage

const crypto = require('crypto')
const fastify = require('fastify')()
const group = crypto.randomBytes(20).toString('hex')

fastify
  .register(require('fastify-kafka'), {
    producer: {
      'metadata.broker.list': '127.0.0.1:9092',
      'group.id': group,
      'fetch.wait.max.ms': 10,
      'fetch.error.backoff.ms': 50,
      'dr_cb': true
    },
    consumer: {
      'metadata.broker.list': '127.0.0.1:9092',
      'group.id': group,
      'fetch.wait.max.ms': 10,
      'fetch.error.backoff.ms': 50,
      'auto.offset.reset': 'earliest'
    }
  })

fastify.post('/data', (req, reply) => {
  fastify.kafka.push({
    topic: 'api-data',
    payload: req.body,
    key: 'dataKey'
  })
})

fastify.kafka.subscribe('updates')
fastify.kafka.on('updates', (msg, commit) => {
  console.log(msg.value.toString())
  commit()
})

fastify.listen(3000, err => {
  if (err) throw err
  console.log(`server listening on ${fastify.server.address().port}`)
})

API

This module exposes the following apis:

Producer

fastify.kafka.producer: the producer instance
fastify.kafka.push: utility to produce a new message

Consumer

fastify.kafka.consumer: the consumer instance
fastify.kafka.consume: utility to start the message consuming
fastify.kafka.subscribe: utility to start the subscribe to one or more topics
fastify.kafka.on: topic listener

Acknowledgements

This project is kindly sponsored by:

LetzDoIt

License

Licensed under MIT.

Usage no npm install needed!