flutterfire VS grpc-dart

Compare flutterfire vs grpc-dart and see what are their differences.

flutterfire

πŸ”₯ A collection of Firebase plugins for Flutter apps. (by firebase)

grpc-dart

The Dart language implementation of gRPC. (by grpc)
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flutterfire grpc-dart
53 3
8,367 825
1.6% 1.3%
9.6 6.9
7 days ago 3 days ago
Dart Dart
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License Apache License 2.0
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flutterfire

Posts with mentions or reviews of flutterfire. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-14.

grpc-dart

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  • Flutter + gRPC for Desktop and Mobile App Development - Good choice?
    4 projects | /r/FlutterDev | 29 May 2023
    In my opinion it's a good idea, it's the architecture we use at work, and it works well for us. The main limitation to be aware of is that many PaaS don't support gRPC traffic (because of the proxies used). For example, DigitalOcean App Platform or Heroku if I remember correctly. If the way you want to host your backend is OK with HTTP/2 and gRPC traffic, then it's not a limitation. One way around this limitation is to use the gRPC-Web protocol, or the Connect protocol (https://connect.build/). Unfortunately, Dart's gRPC client does not support the gRPC-Web protocol outside the web platform. So for a mobile application, it's not usable at the moment. (If this PR were accepted, it would solve the issue: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-dart/pull/557.) As for Connect, no client is currently offered by Buf for Dart. Don't hesitate if you want to know more. That said, I'd advise you to use the Connect implementation for Go to implement your backend. Connect will enable your server to speak all three protocols (gRPC, gRPC-Web and Connect), which is very useful in the long term. What's more, the code is cleaner, and you benefit from official support for observability with OpenTelemetry. If you don't know Buf (the creators of Connect),I suggest you visit their website: https://buf.build/. :-) Good luck!
    4 projects | /r/FlutterDev | 29 May 2023
    Just beware of a bug I reported in Dart's gRPC library that is creating problems if you are using a server stream that returns messages with over 0x1000 bytes: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-dart/issues/624. The workaround is that you can use streams and you can return large messages, but until this is fixed, you should avoid using streams that return large messages.
  • Would you recommend Dart as a good language to understand and grasp the concepts of other programming languages?
    4 projects | /r/dartlang | 15 Feb 2021
    gRPC exist in Dart language since Jul 17, 2017. https://github.com/grpc/grpc-dart/commit/ee72b4b418cb9639487b74ee5a1216ed57637f8d

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