NodeJs - Kafka streams does not output messages to console

Question

I am using node-fluent/kafka-streams to connect to a Kafka cluster launched using Strimzi. The quick start example does not emit any message - it only shows the message stream started, as kafka consumer is ready.. I can confirm that messages are getting published and consumed successfully using the producer and consumer pods as described in the quick start. What is missing?

const {KafkaStreams} = require("kafka-streams");
const kafkaConfig = {
  "noptions": {
      "metadata.broker.list": "localhost:9092",
      "group.id": "kafka-streams-test-native",
      "client.id": "kafka-streams-test-name-native",
      "event_cb": true,
      "compression.codec": "snappy",
      "api.version.request": true,
      "socket.keepalive.enable": true,
      "socket.blocking.max.ms": 100,
      "enable.auto.commit": false,
      "auto.commit.interval.ms": 100,
      "heartbeat.interval.ms": 250,
      "retry.backoff.ms": 250,
      "fetch.min.bytes": 100,
      "fetch.message.max.bytes": 2 * 1024 * 1024,
      "queued.min.messages": 100,
      "fetch.error.backoff.ms": 100,
      "queued.max.messages.kbytes": 50,
      "fetch.wait.max.ms": 1000,
      "queue.buffering.max.ms": 1000,
      "batch.num.messages": 10000
  },
  "tconf": {
      "auto.offset.reset": "earliest",
      "request.required.acks": 1
  },
  "batchOptions": {
      "batchSize": 5,
      "commitEveryNBatch": 1,
      "concurrency": 1,
      "commitSync": false,
      "noBatchCommits": false
  }
}

const kafkaStreams = new KafkaStreams(kafkaConfig);
kafkaStreams.on('connection', (s) => console.log("Connected."))

const kafkaTopicName = "m001_limits";
const stream = kafkaStreams.getKStream(kafkaTopicName);

stream.forEach(message => console.log(message));
stream.start().then(() => {
    console.log("stream started, as kafka consumer is ready.");
}, error => {
    console.log("streamed failed to start: " + error);
});