Installation

Choose your preferred package manager and run one of the following commands in your terminal:

npm

npm install effect-kafka

yarn

yarn add effect-kafka

pnpm

pnpm add effect-kafka

bun

bun add effect-kafka

Next install one of kafka engine packages:

KafkaJS

pnpm add kafkajs

@confluentinc/kafka-javascript

pnpm add @confluentinc/kafka-javascript

@platformatic/kafka

pnpm add @platformatic/kafka

• KafkaJS - Fully JavaScript implementation.
• @confluentinc/kafka-javascript - JavaScript interface for C++ librdkafka implementation, which is more performant, but requires native bindings.
• @platformatic/kafka - New pure JavaScript Kafka client implementation with ambition to replace KafkaJS

NOTE

You can use any of the above Kafka engine packages, depending on your preference.