KafkaJs seems not maintained anymore about nest

[samuelleach]

Sam from Confluent here.

I know that the Confluent team are now officially supporting a javascript client with this early access release:

https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-javascript

From the Readme:

confluent-kafka-javascript is Confluent's JavaScript client for Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform. This is an early access library. The goal is to provide an highly performant, reliable and easy to use JavaScript client that is based on node-rdkafka yet also API compatible with KafkaJS to provide flexibility to users and streamline migrations from other clients.

Check it out and see if it meets your needs.

[mkaufmaner]

Sam from Confluent here.

I know that the Confluent team are now officially supporting a javascript client with this early access release:

https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-javascript

From the Readme:

confluent-kafka-javascript is Confluent's JavaScript client for Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform. This is an early access library. The goal is to provide an highly performant, reliable and easy to use JavaScript client that is based on node-rdkafka yet also API compatible with KafkaJS to provide flexibility to users and streamline migrations from other clients.

Check it out and see if it meets your needs.

@samuelleach Looking forward to this library becoming production ready. It is disappointing to see the KafkaJS project become stale and I appreciate Confluent picking it up.

One thing to keep in mind is that NestJS uses a custom partitioner for assigning reply topics to support the MessagePattern. See https://github.com/nestjs/nest/blob/master/packages/microservices/helpers/kafka-reply-partition-assigner.ts

[trevordixon]

+1 As a heavy user of NestJS and Kafka, I'd like to know the framework uses the best lib. https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-javascript says, "This library is currently in early access and not meant for production use." I'd like to see NestJS switch to node-rdkafka sooner than later while keeping an eye on confluent-kafka-javascript for the future.

[andreacioni]

Hi @samuelleach, thanks for pointing it out. I didn't knew about this work, on Confluent website I just saw a mention to node-rdkafka.

Anyway based on the facts that this library is at an early development stage and the migration from node-rdkafka is going to be trivial (just switching the import statement) I'd suggest for starter to migrate from KafkaJs to node-rdkafka. But That's just my personal opinion.

[andreacioni]

Any thoughts from the maintainers? Because if you decide to change/add node-rdkafka for the underlying implementation of Kafka microservices I'm wondering to propose a PR.