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Matthew T. Adams commented on KAFKA-10415:
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[~ijuma] I understand. Should I have filed an issue with Confluent instead,
then? If so, can you point me to an issue tracker for Confluent where I could
file this?
> Provide an officially supported Node.js client
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> Key: KAFKA-10415
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-10415
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: clients
> Reporter: Matthew T. Adams
> Priority: Major
>
> Please provide an official Node.js client for Kafka at feature parity with
> all of the other officially supported & provided Kafka clients.
> It is extremely confusing when it comes to trying to use Kafka in the Node.js
> ecosystem. There are many clients, some look legitimate
> ([http://kafka.js.org),|http://kafka.js.org%29%2C/] but some are woefully out
> of date (many listed at
> [https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Clients#Clients-Node.js]),
> and others have confusing relationships among them
> ([https://github.com/nodefluent/node-sinek] &
> [https://github.com/nodefluent/kafka-streams]). Most of them are publicly
> asking for help. This leaves teams having to waste time trying to figure out
> which client has the Kafka features they need (mostly talking about streaming
> here), and which client has high quality and will be around in the future.
> If the client came directly from this project, those decisions would be made
> and we could get on about our work.
> JavaScript is on the of the most popular languages on the planet, and the
> Node.js user base is huge – big enough that a Node.js client provided
> directly by the Kafka team is justified. The list at
> [https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/Clients#Clients-Node.js]
> doesn't even mention what is perhaps the most confidence-inducing Node.js
> client thanks to its documentation,
> [https://kafka.js.org.|https://kafka.js.org./] The list at
> [https://docs.confluent.io/current/clients/index.html#ak-clients] includes an
> officially-supported Go language client; Go's community is dwarfed by that of
> Node.js.
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