Event-Store v0.7

FJ-EventStore is an EventStore heavily inspired by the prooph/event-store v7.0.

Implemented:

• SingleStream Strategy: Create a Stream for each Aggregate
• Loading and saving Aggregates
• Persistent Projections
• ReadModel Projections
• Event Queries

Available Driver

• InMemory
• Sqlite3
• PostgreSQL
• MySQL

Projections / Queries

• You can query and process one or multiple Streams with the fromStream, fromStreams, fromAll API.
• Fetch all or a subset of Events with an optional MetadataMatcher
• Create persisted State with an Projector or temporary created State with a Query
• Fetching multiple streams creates a merged stream and run over the events in historical order

Basic Usage

The usage of this EventStore is recommended with TypeScript to benefit from the implemented autocompletion features for Events, ProjectionStates. This EventStore also ships with Decorators to simplify configuration.

The following descriptions using TypeScript. The integrated example serve using normal JavaScript for reference.

Example Project based on NestJS

FJ EventStore Example is a base Project with an example integration in the NodeJS Framework NestJS. The Example includes different APIs to show you the basic features like:

• Implementing Aggregates, Events, Projection, Repositories and so on
• Create and persist a new Aggregate
• Update an existing Aggregate

For a basic overview you can use the code snippets from this example project below

Initialise the EventStore

Create the EventStore in your Backend

// main.ts

import { createPostgresEventStore } from 'fj-event-store/postgres';

const eventStore = createPostgresEventStore({
  // Postgres ConnectionString  
  connectionString: 'postgres://user:password@localhost:5432/event-store'
});

// Creates the event_streams and projections tables if they not exist
await eventStore.install();

Create a new EventStream with the integrated CLI helper

event-store event-stream:create <streamName>

Create an Aggregate with the related Events using the included Decorator

Create a basic events with immutable values and payload autocomplete

// model/todo/event/todo-was-added.ts

import { BaseEvent } from 'fj-event-store';

interface TodoPayload {
  task: string;
  description: string;
  date: string;
}

export class TodoWasAdded extends BaseEvent<TodoPayload> {
  static with(todoId: string, task: string, description: string, date: Date) {
    return this.occur(todoId, { task, description, date: date.toString() });
  }

  get todoId() {
    return this.aggregateId;
  }

  get task() {
    return this._payload.task;
  }

  get description() {
    return this._payload.description;
  }

  get date() {
    return new Date(this._payload.date);
  }
}

Create and configure an Todo Aggregate with the AbstractAggregate Class and Aggregate Decorater to configure them.

Use Aggregate._recordThat to append a new Event to the EventStream of the Aggregate. its not persisted yet.

Each Aggregate calls internal a method with the name-schema _when${EventClassName} if it exist. This Method is normally used to set the new State from the Events in the Aggregate.

// model/todo/todo.ts

import { AbstractAggregate } from 'fj-event-store';
import { Aggregate } from 'fj-event-store';
import { TodoWasAdded } from './event';

@Aggregate([TodoWasAdded])
export class Todo extends AbstractAggregate {
  private _todoId: string;
  private _task: string;
  private _description: string;
  private _checked: boolean;
  private _date: Date;

  public static add(todoId: string, task: string, description: string, date: Date): Todo {
    const self = new this();
    self._recordThat(TodoWasAdded.with(todoId, task, description, date));

    return self;
  }

  protected _whenTodoWasAdded(event: TodoWasAdded) {
    this._todoId = event.aggregateId;
    this._task = event.task;
    this._description = event.description;
    this._date = event.date;
    this._checked = false;
  }

  get todoId(): string {
    return this._todoId;
  }

  get task(): string {
    return this._task;
  }

  get description(): string {
    return this._description;
  }

  get date(): Date {
    return this._date;
  }

  get checked(): boolean {
    return this._checked;
  }
}

Load and save Aggregates with Repositories

Create a Repository for your Aggregate. Each Repository has 2 methods to save and load aggregates.

// model/todo/todo-repository.ts

import { AggregateRepository, Repository } from 'fj-event-store';
import { Todo } from './todo';

@Repository({ streamName: 'todos', aggregate: Todo })
export class TodoRepository extends AggregateRepository<Todo> {}

Finally use your Aggregate and Repository to create and persist a Todo

// main.ts

import * as uuid from 'uuid/v4'
import { createInMemoryEventStore } from 'fj-event-store/in-memory';
import { Todo, TodoRepository } from './todo/model';

(async () => {
    const eventStore = createInMemoryEventStore();
    
    await eventStore.install();

    const todo = Todo.add(
        uuid(),
        'Using fj-event-store',
        'Using EventSourcing in my next NodeJS project',
        new Date()
    );

    repository = new TodoRepository();

    // Persist the new aggregate in your PostgresDB
    await repository.save(todo);

    // Load an Aggregate from your EventStream
    const loadedTodo = repository.get(todo.todoId)
})();

Create and using Projections

Create a simple persisted Projection

Using the AbstractProjection class and configure them with the helper Decorator

// projection/todo/todo-list.ts

import { AbstractProjection, Projection, IProjector } from 'fj-event-store';
import { TodoWasAdded } from '../../model/todo/event';

export interface TodoListState {
  [id: string]: { id: string, task: string, date: string, checked: boolean };
}

@Projection('todo_list')
export class TodoListProjection extends AbstractProjection<TodoListState> {
  project(): IProjector<TodoListState> {
    return this
      .projector
      .fromStream({ streamName: 'todos' })
      .init(() => ({}))
      .when({
        [TodoWasAdded.name]: (state, event: TodoWasAdded): TodoListState => {
          return { ...state, [event.todoId]: { id: event.todoId, task: event.task, date: event.date.toString(), checked: false } };
        }
      });
  }
}

Run the projection and get the persisted state

// main.ts
...

(async () => {
    ...

    const projector = eventStore.getProjector<TodoListState>(TodoListProjection.projectionName);
    
    await projector.run(false);
    
    projector.getState()
})();

Using the Command Line Tool

The CLI event-store supports the usage of EventStore with different helper commands for EventStreams and Projections.

Usage: event-store [command] --help

CLI to manage EventStore streams, requires a event-store.config.js config file.

Options:
  -V, --version                       output the version number
  -h, --help                          output usage information

Commands:
  event-stream:create <streamName>    Creates an new EventStream
  event-stream:delete <streamName>    Deletes an existing EventStream
  projection:run [options] <name>     Running a projection
  projection:reset <name>             Reset a projection
  projection:delete [options] <name>  Delete a projection

Run the example

Requirements

1. A running Postgres DB - You can use the docker-compose.yaml to start a postgres instance as docker container.

docker-compose up -d postgres

2. Create your .env File under ./example. You can copy and rename the .env.default to .env and change the values to your configuration

3. Make the CLI Tool executable with the following command chmod +x bin/event-store

Running the Example

# Install the dependencies (including DEV-dependencies)
npm install

# Install peerDependencies for a Postgres EventStore
npm i pg @types/pg --no-save

# Transpile Typescript
npm run watch

# Run the Example Server
npm run serve

After the Server started you should see the Message EventStore installed in your Terminal if the DB preparation was succeeded

Existing APIs are

Create a User:
http://localhost:3000/append/user/:username
(Returns the UserID you can fetch afterwards)

Fetch a User Aggregate:
http://localhost:3000/user/:aggregateId
(Returns the latest user state)

Change the Username:
http://localhost:3000/user/:aggregateId/change-name?name=:username
(Returns the updated user)

Write a comment:
http://localhost:3000/user/:aggregateId/write-comment?message=:message
(Returns the updated user)

Create and show a persistend Projection: User List:
http://localhost:3000/user/list
(Returns the updated user)

Query Events: User EventHistory:
http://localhost:3000/user/:id/history
(Returns the updated user)

Query multilpe StreamEvents: User Comment List:
http://localhost:3000/user/:id/comments