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grpc-web
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Ask HN: WebSocket server transforming channel subscriptions to gRPC streams
* Additionally, client can stream data to the backend server (if bidirectional GRPC streams are used). I.e. client sends WebSocket messages, those will be transformed to GRPC messages by WebSocket server and delivered to the application backend.
As a result we have a system which allows to quickly create individual streams by using strict GRPC contract but terminating connections over WebSocket transport. So it works well in web browsers. After that no need to write WebSocket protocol, client implementation, handle WebSocket connection. This all will be solved by a suggested WebSocket server and its client SDKs.
The mechanics is similar to Websocketd (https://github.com/joewalnes/websocketd), but instead of creating OS processes we create GRPC streams. The difference from grpc-web (https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web) is that we provide streaming capabilities but not exposing GRPC contract to the client - just allowing to stream any data as payload (both binary and text) with some wrappers from our client SDKs side for managing subscriptions. I.e. it's not native GRPC streams on the client side - we expose just Connection/Subscription object to stream in both directions. GRPC streams used only for communication between WebSocket server and backend. To mention - grpc-web does not support all kinds of streaming now (https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web#streaming-support) while proposed solution can. This all should provide a cross-platform way to quickly write streaming apps due to client SDKs and language-agnostic nature of GRPC.
I personally see both pros and cons in this scheme (without concentrating on both too much here to keep the question short). I spent some time thinking about this myself, already have some working prototypes – but turned out need more opinions before moving forward with the idea and releasing this, kinda lost in doubts.
My main question - whether this seems interesting for someone here? Do you find this useful and see practical value?
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Build and Deploy a gRPC-Web App Using Rust Tonic and React
By default, web browsers do not support gRPC, but we will use gRPC-web to make it possible.
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Lemmy v0.18.0 Release - A reddit alternative written in Rust.
You just have to use a library implementation for JavaScript https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web
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Full Stack Forays with Go and gRPC
TypeScript support remains an experimental feature of gRPC.
- Seeking Opinion: Choosing Between Gateway and Envoy Proxy for Our Microservices Architecture
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Introducing Tempo: low latency, cross-platform, end-to-end typesafe APIs
The gRPC-Web protocol supports HTTP/1 and can be used from a browser.
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gRPC on the client side
-- grpc-web
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Introduction to gRPC
gRPC is mainly used in server-to-server communication, but it can also be used in client-to-server communication. gRPC-web is a gRPC implementation for web browsers. It is a JavaScript library that allows you to call gRPC services from a web browser. It supports Unary and Streaming Server API calls.
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gRPC vs REST: Comparing API Styles in Practice
Since we're using Envoy, there's one more neat trick that we can employ. It turns out that Envoy also support gRPC-Web out of the box, a JavaScript client designed to support gRPC communication from the browser! That means that we can send gRPC messages over HTTP/1.1 as base64 encoded strings or as binary protobufs. Messages will be sent through our proxy and on to our backend service. The advantage of this is smaller and more efficient wire communication which should lead to better performance.
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Understanding gRPC Concepts, Use Cases & Best Practices
protoc-gen-grpc-web — a plugin that allows our front end to communicate with the backend using gRPC calls. A separate blog post on this coming up in the future.
telefunc
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tRPC – Move Fast and Break Nothing. End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy
Compared with tRPC: https://github.com/brillout/telefunc/issues/9
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GraphQL vs. REST APIs: a complete guide
For JavaScript based projects TeleFunc[1] can make development way simpler by 'removing' the need for an API.
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Next, Nest, Nuxt Nust?
- api routes (cloud functions) require another package (on purpose). see https://telefunc.com/ from the same maintainer
other than that, no gatchas i encountered. i would choose vite-plugin-ssr again.
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Is there a library or a standard way of creating an interface for my api endpoints?
Another suggestion to solve your problem could be to use telefunc
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Remote Functions. Instead of API
> My experience was that for the simplest use cases, the ergonomics were unbeatable.
Exactly.
> the “just a function” interface was a distraction and I found myself wishing for a more conventional RPC interface.
For real-time use cases, I agree. I believe functions are the wrong abstraction here for real-time. I do plan to support real-time but using a "it's just variables" abstraction instead, see https://github.com/brillout/telefunc/issues/36.
> cleverer abstractions usually mean more work overall to integrate everything and boring is better.
Yes, Telefunc's downside is that it requires a transformer. The Vite and Webpack one are reliable and used in production (using `es-module-lexer` under the hood). The hope here is that, as Telefunc's popularity grows, more and more stacks are reliably supported. Also, there is a prototype using Telefunc without a transformer at all, which works but needs polishing.
> I experimented with a higher-magic version of this a couple of years ago.
Neat, curious, is it on GitHub?
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End-to-end type safety with tRPC (example repository)
An alternativeto tRPC that I find easier to use is telefunc
What are some alternatives?
ngx-grpc - Angular gRPC framework
electron-trpc - Build type-safe Electron inter-process communication using tRPC
grpc-over-webrtc - gRPC over WebRTC
vike - 🔨 Like Next.js / Nuxt but as do-one-thing-do-it-well Vite plugin.
grpcurl - Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers
tRPC-example - e2e type safety with tRPC
buf - The best way of working with Protocol Buffers.
wundergraph - WunderGraph is a Backend for Frontend Framework to optimize frontend, fullstack and backend developer workflows through API Composition.
webrpc - webrpc is a schema-driven approach to writing backend services for modern Web apps and networks
ts-websocket-compressor - This library compresses data sent over a WebSocket connection to improve throughput on devices that can't use compression for one reason or another.
evans - Evans: more expressive universal gRPC client
phero - Full-stack type-safety with pure TypeScript