README.md

Node Kafka

A Monorepo that hosts two web server and a web client. Purpose of this project is to demonstrate usage of Kafka and Dapr. We have one producer server that publishes messages to kafka and consumer server publishes that message web client after receiving the message from kafka

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Kafka Fundamentals

Tools used

Build system: Turborepo

• Global

  • Node.js 16
  • yarn
  • docker-compose
  • Dapr - Used to simplify microservice connectivity

• API

  • KafkaJS - Kafka client for NodeJS
  • Kafka Graphql Subscriptions
  • TypeGraphql - Code first Graphql
  • Fastify / Mercurius - Fastest web framework for NodeJS. Mercurius is the graphql adapter of Fastify.
  • Mikro ORM - Awesome TypeScript ORM for NodeJS
  • Postgres
  • Kafka

• Frontend

  • React
  • Vite - Next Gen Frontend build tool
  • Cypress - E2E & Integration testing framework

Workspaces

Workspaces can exist in these folders:

apps
services
packages

Predefined workspaces

In this starter kit these workspaces are defined already:

apps
  - producer_server
  - consumer_server
  - ui
services
  - message_broker
  - postgres
packages
  - config
  - tsconfig
  - ui-components

Usage

• Install dependencies using yarn install
• Start the stack using yarn dev
• Start dapr yarn dapr:run (please make sure Kafka is running before running dapr)
• Browse http://localhost:3000

yarn dev output

http://localhost:3000 output

http://localhost:9411 output