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Introducing open-rfc: Calling SAP RFC from Node.js Without the SDK

If you ever wanted to call a remote-enabled ABAP function module from JavaScript or Node.js, you probably discovered quite quickly that this is not as easy as it sounds. There is an RFC protocol. There are remote-enabled function modules. There is an npm package called node-rfc. So you would expect to install the package, add the connection details, and make the call. But npm install node-rfc was never the complete setup. ...

August 10, 2026 · 12 min · 2452 words · Marian Zeis