wasp-ws-event-service

Deprecation Notice

WASP was deprecated on March 14th 2024, there will be no further dependency or security updates to this platform.

WebSocket connection for the wasp-event-service.

Getting started

wasp-ws-event-service can be run in a similar way to most nodejs applications. First install required dependencies using npm:

npm install

wasp-ws-event-service depends on Kafka which can be brought locally up using docker:

docker-compose up -d

And finally you can run the application in development mode with:

npm run dev

Or run tests with:

npm test

Environment Variables

wasp-ws-event-service is configured primarily using environment variables as follows:

variable	required	default	description
LOG_LEVEL	N	info	Logging level. Valid values are [trace, debug, info, warn, error, fatal]
PORT	N	80	Port on which the service will listen
KAFKA_LOG_LEVEL	N	nothing	Log level to use for the Kafka connection. Choices are 'debug', 'info', 'warn', 'error' or 'nothing'
KAFKA_BROKERS	N	localhost:9092	Comma separated List of Kafka brokers to connect to
KAFKA_EVENTS_NOTIFICATIONS_TOPIC	N	event-notifications	Incoming Kafka topic for events
WS_PING_INTERVAL_MS	N	500	Ping interval in milliseconds to keep WebSocket connection alive