kafka-nodejs-starter VS kafkajs

We will use a barebones Express.js API for this tutorial. You can find the starter code here. We will use it as a base and add Kafka support to the API. We can do more with the data, but the API is intentionally kept simple so that we can focus on Kafka.

I will use the KafkaJS library to achieve it quickly. Let’s just paste the code here.

The streaming database writes back results to Kafka topics by using sink operation in real-time. Now, we need to add JavaScript code to consume and process discount messages received from Kafka and update the UI in real-time to display them. We can use the KafkaJS library, which is a popular Kafka client for Node.js to listen and consume Kafka messages.

Before we start producing and consuming events, we need to install Kafka to our API. We will use the Kafka.js client library for Node.js.

Once Kafka runs on Kube-native support that Strimzi offers, you can now start utilizing Node.js to create your streams and use libraries such as KafkaJS, a modern Apache Kafka client for Node.js.