Node event-sourcing

A library for Event Sourcing in Node.js.

Architecture

Components

• Event Receiver — Entrypoint for all your events. You can call it from a microservice, it will publish the events to your Queue service.

• Event Archivist — Subscribes to the event Queue and stores them in your Event Store.

• Event Processor — Subscribes to the event Queue, apply the event to the current state, and then saves it to the State Store.

• State Reader — Connects to the State Store to get or subscribe to state changes. You can expose it through a microservice.

Services

• Queue — Use your own Queue implementing publish(type, event), subscribe(type, callback), and unsubscribe(type, callback) or use one of the available services : Kafka or Redis. By default the events with be queued in memory.

• Event Store — Use your own Event Store implementing async store(data, domain), and async find(domain, { from }, treatChunk) or use one of the available services : Elasticsearch or FileSystem. By default the events with be stored on the file system.

• State Store — Use your own State Store implementing async readOnly(key), async lockAndGet(key), async set(key, value), subscribe(key, callback), and unsubscribe(key, callback)) or use one of the available services : Redis. By default the states with be stored in memory.

Getting Started

$ npm install node-event-sourcing

For more details: see examples.

// receiver.js
import { EventReceiver } from 'node-event-sourcing'
 
const receiver = new EventReceiver({
  queue: ..., // optional, default: InMemoryQueue (not recommended in production)
  queueName: ... // optional, default: 'event'
})
 
const event = { eventType: 'increment-counter-1' }
receiver.emit(event)

// archivist.js
import { EventArchivist } from 'node-event-sourcing'
 
const archivist = new EventArchivist({
  queue: ..., // optional, default: InMemoryQueue (not recommended in production)
  queueName: ..., // optional, default: 'event'
  eventStore: ..., // optional, default: FileSystemEventStore
  transform: ..., // optional, default: identity function
})
archivist.run()

// processor.js
import { EventProcessor } from 'node-event-sourcing'
 
const processor = new EventProcessor({
  queue: ..., // optional, default: InMemoryQueue (not recommended in production)
  queueName: ..., // optional, default: 'event'
  stateStore: ..., // optional, default: InMemoryStateStore (not recommended in production)
  eventTypeKey // optional, default: 'eventType'
})
 
processor.on('increment-counter-1', async (event, stateStore) => {
  const currentCounter = parseInt(await stateStore.lockAndGet('counter:1')) || 0
  await stateStore.set('counter:1', currentCounter + 1)
})
processor.on('increment-counter-2', async (event, stateStore) => {
  const currentCounter = parseInt(await stateStore.lockAndGet('counter:2')) || 0
  await stateStore.set('counter:2', currentCounter + 1)
})

// state-reader.js
import { StateReader } from 'node-event-sourcing'
 
const state = new StateReader({
  stateStore: ... // optional, default: InMemoryStateStore (not recommended in production)
})
 
state.get('increment-counter-1').then(counter1 => console.log(counter1))
state.subscribe('increment-counter-1', counter1 => console.log(counter1))