SOHU-Co/kafka-node

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2651 stars · 612 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

kafka-node is a Node.js client library for Apache Kafka 0.9 through 0.11, providing producers, consumers, consumer groups, stream-based APIs, and administrative operations. It supports SSL connections, SASL/PLAIN authentication, and offset management.

Use cases

• produce messages to kafka from node.js
• consume kafka topics in a node app
• join a kafka consumer group with node
• stream kafka messages with node streams
• create and manage kafka topics programmatically
• connect to kafka brokers over ssl or sasl

When to choose

• you're on Node.js and need a pure-JS Kafka client without native dependencies
• you're running older Kafka brokers (0.9-0.11)
• you need stream-based producer/consumer APIs

When to avoid

• you're on modern Kafka (2.x+) where kafkajs or confluent-kafka-javascript are better maintained
• you need the newest Kafka protocol features
• you need guaranteed long-term support

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

message-queue http-client streaming microservices backend developer-tools cross-platform kafka apache-kafka producer consumer consumer-groups event-streaming javascript messaging nodejs

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