As it happens, [I was adding Zstandard support](https://github.com/kafkajs/zstd) to [KafkaJS](https://kafka.js.org) yesterday. Sadly, the closest thing there is to official bindings for NodeJS haven't been updated for 4 years and don't build against newer versions of Node, so I ended up having to rely on some random fork that I have no reason to believe is going to be maintained.
Unfortunately, the overlap of people that know C++ well enough to write high quality bindings and also have an interest in NodeJS is not that large. I tried to get into it myself, but there's a pretty steep learning curve and once you go beyond tiny toy examples it gets pretty hairy.
If someone has the skills and interest in taking on a medium sized open source project that would be immediately useful to a lot of people in the Node community, Zstandard would be a good choice.
Hey I made the original feature request to add support for Zstd on the KafkaJS repo about 2 years ago! I no longer work at a place that uses Kafka, but I just wanted to say KafkaJS was a brilliant piece of software and IMHO the best Node.js library for working with Kafka!
Unfortunately, the overlap of people that know C++ well enough to write high quality bindings and also have an interest in NodeJS is not that large. I tried to get into it myself, but there's a pretty steep learning curve and once you go beyond tiny toy examples it gets pretty hairy.
If someone has the skills and interest in taking on a medium sized open source project that would be immediately useful to a lot of people in the Node community, Zstandard would be a good choice.