EventStoreDB NodeJS Client

EventStoreDB is the open-source, functional database with Complex Event Processing in Javascript.

This is the repository for the NodeJS client for EventStoreDB 20+ and uses gRPC as the communication protocol.

Installation

# Yarn
$ yarn add @eventstore/db-client

# NPM
$ npm install --save @eventstore/db-client

EventStoreDB Server Compatibility

This client is compatible with version 20.6.1 upwards.

Server setup instructions can be found in the Event Store Docs, follow the docker setup for the simplest configuration.

Documentation

Full documentation can be found in Event Store GRPC Client Docs.

Example

The following snippet showcases a simple example where we form a connection, then append and read events from the server.

Javascript example:

const {
  EventStoreDBClient,
  jsonEvent,
  FORWARDS,
  START,
} = require("@eventstore/db-client");

const client = new EventStoreDBClient({
  endpoint: "localhost:2113",
});

async function simpleTest() {
  const streamName = "es_supported_clients";

  const event = jsonEvent({
    type: "grpc-client",
    data: {
      languages: ["typescript", "javascript"],
      runtime: "NodeJS",
    },
  });

  const appendResult = await client.appendToStream(streamName, [event]);

  const events = client.readStream(streamName, {
    fromRevision: START,
    direction: FORWARDS,
    maxCount: 10,
  });

  for await (const event of events) {
    doSomethingProductive(event);
  }
}

Typescript example:

import {
  EventStoreDBClient,
  jsonEvent,
  FORWARDS,
  START,
  JSONEventType,
} from "@eventstore/db-client";

const client = new EventStoreDBClient({
  endpoint: "localhost:2113",
});

interface Reservation {
  reservationId: string;
  movieId: string;
  userId: string;
  seatId: string;
}

type SeatReservedEvent = JSONEventType<
  "seat-reserved",
  {
    reservationId: string;
    movieId: string;
    userId: string;
    seatId: string;
  }
>;

type SeatChangedEvent = JSONEventType<
  "seat-changed",
  {
    reservationId: string;
    newSeatId: string;
  }
>;

type ReservationEvents = SeatReservedEvent | SeatChangedEvent;

async function simpleTest(): Promise<void> {
  const streamName = "booking-abc123";

  const event = jsonEvent<SeatReservedEvent>({
    type: "seat-reserved",
    data: {
      reservationId: "abc123",
      movieId: "tt0368226",
      userId: "nm0802995",
      seatId: "4b",
    },
  });

  const appendResult = await client.appendToStream(streamName, event);

  const events = client.readStream<ReservationEvents>(streamName, {
    fromRevision: START,
    direction: FORWARDS,
    maxCount: 10,
  });

  const reservation: Partial<Reservation> = {};

  for await (const { event } of events) {
    switch (event.type) {
      case "seat-reserved": {
        reservation.reservationId = event.data.reservationId;
        reservation.movieId = event.data.movieId;
        reservation.seatId = event.data.seatId;
        reservation.userId = event.data.userId;
        break;
      }
      case "seat-changed": {
        reservation.seatId = event.data.newSeatId;
        break;
      }
      default: {
        const _exhaustiveCheck: never = event;
        break;
      }
    }
  }
}

Build from source

This project uses Yarn as a build tool. The following shell command lines should get you started:

$ yarn
$ yarn build

Run tests

Tests are written using Jest and require Docker and Docker Compose to be installed. Then run test with:

$ yarn test

Tests can be filtered by prepending the test file or folder to the command

$ yarn test connection // all connection tests
$ yarn test ReadAll // only the ReadAll tests

To get debug information when running tests use the test:debug command.

$ yarn test:debug // debug all tests
$ yarn test:debug ReadAll // only the ReadAll tests

Specific docker images can be specified via the enviroment variable EVENTSTORE_IMAGE.

$ yarn cross-env EVENTSTORE_IMAGE=77d63f3f0ab3 jest

See Jest documentation for more options.

Debugging

This project uses the debug module internally to log information about connections, options and GRPC requests. To see all the internal logs, set the DEBUG environment variable to esdb:* when launching your app. Logs can be further filtered with glob patterns, for example, only connection logs: esdb:connection, everything but grpc logs: esdb:*,-*:grpc.

You can set a few environment variables that will further change the behavior of the debug logging:

Note: The environment variables beginning with DEBUG_ end up being converted into an Options object that gets used with %o/%O formatters. See the Node.js documentation for util.inspect() for the complete list.

Support

Information on support can be found on our website: Event Store Support

Community

We have a community discussion space at Event Store Discuss.

Contributing

Development is done on the master branch. We attempt to do our best to ensure that the history remains clean and to do so, we generally ask contributors to squash their commits into a set or single logical commit.