grpc-ts vs twirp

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Whisk GRPC web library (by whisklabs)

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A simple RPC framework with protobuf service definitions (by twitchtv)

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grpc-ts		twirp
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2	Mentions	30
31	Stars	6,828
-	Growth	0.5%
3.8	Activity	3.5
2 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
TypeScript	Language	Go
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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grpc-ts

Posts with mentions or reviews of grpc-ts. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-05.

Show HN: Pbkit – Protobuf toolkit written in Deno/TypeScript
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Apr 2022

twirp

Posts with mentions or reviews of twirp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-26.

I Reviewed 1,000s of Opinions on gRPC
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Dec 2023

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?
3 projects | /r/golang | 22 May 2023
Reasons to use gRPC/Protobuf?
3 projects | /r/golang | 30 Apr 2023
A detailed comparison of REST and gRPC
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Apr 2023

- Twirp (Twitch light version of gRPC, with optional JSON encoding, HTTP1 support and without streaming) - https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp
goRPC or gRPC?
5 projects | /r/golang | 12 Feb 2023

There is another: twirp
TypeScript type safety with GO
4 projects | /r/golang | 20 Jan 2023

And addition to what was mentioned there are also webrpc and twirp.
Any good open source python projects that have used GRPC?
1 project | /r/Python | 30 Dec 2022

If you find one, you maybe also interested in twirp.
GraphQL making its way into a Twitter discussion about latency is not what I expected
3 projects | /r/webdev | 15 Nov 2022

Twitch has a great framework for it https://twitchtv.github.io/twirp/docs/intro.html
swaggo/swag alternative, but should generate OpenAPI 3.0 spec file
11 projects | /r/golang | 23 Aug 2022

We have better experience with https://goa.design/ than with https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp
Connect-Web: It's time for Protobuf/gRPC to be your first choice in the browser
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Aug 2022

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?

When comparing grpc-ts and twirp you can also consider the following projects:

protobuf-ts - Protobuf and RPC for TypeScript

drpc - drpc is a lightweight, drop-in replacement for gRPC

grpc-web - gRPC Web implementation for Golang and TypeScript

prisma-client-go - Prisma Client Go is an auto-generated and fully type-safe database client

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.

Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format

gRPC - The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)

chi - lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services

client_golang - Prometheus instrumentation library for Go applications

otpauth - Google Authenticator migration decoder

connect-go - Moved to https://github.com/connectrpc/connect-go