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13 | 30 | |
1,202 | 6,820 | |
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9.2 | 3.0 | |
6 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
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Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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connect-es
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I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on gRPC
> However, it's important to note that browser support wasn't a primary focus in gRPC's design. This oversight necessitates an additional component, grpc-web, for browser accessibility. Furthermore, external services often have specific needs like caching and load balancing, which are not directly catered to by gRPC. Adopting gRPC for external services might require bespoke solutions to support these features.
The article should mention the Connect protocol for web-based Protobuf messaging:
https://connectrpc.com/
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Creating the Local First Stack
We can solve this with a service! Now there are many ways I could have started, but I decided to test out gRPC along the way. This was a mistake. I hoped for the best, but gRPC ended up not being a good choice for the web client. Why? you ask. The gRPC protocol works with all the bells and whistles of http when used server to server, but web clients are not as great. The Javascript client is dependent on http 2.0, and it requires a proxy like Envoy to work with a browser. What's more, I didn't love the structure of the generated web client. So through the process of working on this 'local first stack' I actually got sucked in to a big rabbit hole in making the rpc system work. I ended up going with Connect which is a tool that can create a service from a protobuf service definition, that also talks a simple http 1.1 protocol. What ultimately sold me on this solution as the best is that it also came with a very nice to use web client generation, and even plugs in to my favorite react http helper useQuery.
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Leveraging Temporal for resilient remote procedure calls (RPC)
Our stack at Escape is written in multiple languages because each team has specific needs. We use TypeScript for its vibrant ecosystem, Python for cybersecurity research and Go for performance-sensitive tasks. To orchestrate cross-language task orchestration, we first developed a simple request-response protocol over HTTP, but it wasn't sustainable as the Escape codebase grew rapidly. We evaluated several technologies to replace our homegrown protocol, and two emerged as the most promising options: Connect and Temporal. The title gives it away, but the reason is far from obvious
- Connect RPC – A Better gRPC
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Building a modern gRPC-powered microservice using Node.js, Typescript, and Connect
protobuf messages we’ll configure (@bufbuild/connect-es)
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TypeScript type safety with GO
try https://github.com/bufbuild/connect-web
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Ask HN: Why isn't JSON-RPC more widely adopted?
As for better gRPC-web, you might want to look into connect-web https://github.com/bufbuild/connect-web
- When to use gRPC vs GraphQL
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Protobuf-ES: The Protocol Buffers TypeScript/JavaScript runtime we all deserve
They already have! Connect (https://github.com/bufbuild/connect-web) is what you're looking for, as it's grpc-web compatible.
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Connect-Web: It's time for Protobuf/gRPC to be your first choice in the browser
Ye, fwiw there is an example code size comparison here:
https://github.com/bufbuild/connect-web/blob/main/packages/c...
I'm sure someone will chime in on the implementation details, but hopefully others can give it a try with their projects!
twirp
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I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on gRPC
The next time I want to build an API, I will probably make use of https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp. I like working with Protobuf and having strongly-typed and well-defined messages, but gRPC is way, way too much. It's obviously a Google product, built for what Google needs.
Use Protobuf for messages, but just use HTTP for transport.
- How do I provide bot RPC and REST endpoints?
- Reasons to use gRPC/Protobuf?
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A detailed comparison of REST and gRPC
- Twirp (Twitch light version of gRPC, with optional JSON encoding, HTTP1 support and without streaming) - https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp
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goRPC or gRPC?
There is another: twirp
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TypeScript type safety with GO
And addition to what was mentioned there are also webrpc and twirp.
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Any good open source python projects that have used GRPC?
If you find one, you maybe also interested in twirp.
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GraphQL making its way into a Twitter discussion about latency is not what I expected
Twitch has a great framework for it https://twitchtv.github.io/twirp/docs/intro.html
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swaggo/swag alternative, but should generate OpenAPI 3.0 spec file
We have better experience with https://goa.design/ than with https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp
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Connect-Web: It's time for Protobuf/gRPC to be your first choice in the browser
Take a look at Twirp (https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp) open sourced by TwitchTv. It's a lot lighter weight than gRPC. It does use Protobufs but addresses some of the concerns you mentioned, such as being able to test with JSON payloads, works over HTTP 1.1 and HTTP/2, good client libraries, and doesn't require a proxy.
They address your concerns in more detail in the Twirp release announcement (2018) - https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2018/01/16/twirp-a-sweet-new-rpc-f...
What are some alternatives?
protobuf-es - Protocol Buffers for ECMAScript. The only JavaScript Protobuf library that is fully-compliant with Protobuf conformance tests.
drpc - drpc is a lightweight, drop-in replacement for gRPC
grpc-web - gRPC for Web Clients
grpc-web - gRPC Web implementation for Golang and TypeScript
ts-proto - An idiomatic protobuf generator for TypeScript
prisma-client-go - Prisma Client Go is an auto-generated and fully type-safe database client
buf - The best way of working with Protocol Buffers.
swagger-petstore - swagger-codegen contains a template-driven engine to generate documentation, API clients and server stubs in different languages by parsing your OpenAPI / Swagger definition.
fastify-autoroutes - fastest way to map directories to URLs in fastify
protobuf-ts - Protobuf and RPC for TypeScript
protoc-gen-validate - Protocol Buffer Validation - Being replaced by github.com/bufbuild/protovalidate
Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format