--- title: NodeJS Microservice with Kafka and TypeScript | daily.dev description: A step-by-step guide to building event-driven Node.js microservices using Kafka and TypeScript. Covers running Kafka locally with Docker, creating topics,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/aamamhgws twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: NodeJS Microservice with Kafka and TypeScript | daily.dev og:description: A step-by-step guide to building event-driven Node.js microservices using Kafka and TypeScript. 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Includes migrating a product service from CommonJS to ESM, implementing a reusable KafkaClient class, and integrating event publishing into a gRPC-based product service. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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