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kafkajs-snappy-typescript
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This little codec allows you to compress and decompress kafka records in snappy for kafkajs.
I developped this little package to add strict typing compatibility to Tulio's kafkajs-snappy library (link in the credits section) for people who needs only use typescript.
npm i kafkajs-snappy-typescript
import { SnappyCodec } from "kafkajs-snappy-typescript";
CompressionCodecs[CompressionTypes.Snappy] = new SnappyCodec().codec;
Inspired by Tulio's kafkajs-snappy realization and using Brooooooklyn's snappy nodejs compression library for compression and decompression
See LICENSE for more details.
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Snappy codec for kafkajs in typescript
The npm package kafkajs-snappy-typescript receives a total of 1,221 weekly downloads. As such, kafkajs-snappy-typescript popularity was classified as popular.
We found that kafkajs-snappy-typescript demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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