Introduction
@cookiemonsterdev/kafka-config is a generic config-file loader: discovery, sync/async loading, a
TypeScript transform rescue, layer merging, and diagnostics. It has zero runtime dependencies
and no knowledge of Kafka, or of any other specific consumer.
@cookiemonsterdev/kafka-core uses it to load
kafka.config.ts through Kafka.fromConfig() and new Kafka(), and the CLI and studio build on
it too. Any other consumer can use the same discovery/loading/merging machinery instead of writing
it again.
Install
npm install @cookiemonsterdev/kafka-configIt runs on Node.js 24 or newer and on Bun 1.4 or newer. See Bun for how config loading differs there.
Why a separate package
The loader machinery has no Kafka-specific code in it at all — file discovery, require()/
import() handling, the TypeScript transform rescue, and layer merging are all generic. Shipping
it as its own package means a fix or improvement reaches every consumer through a normal version
bump, instead of requiring a new release of each package that happens to use it.
Next: API reference.