grpc-web
gRPC Web implementation for Golang and TypeScript (by improbable-eng)
twirp
A simple RPC framework with protobuf service definitions (by twitchtv)
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| grpc-web | twirp | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 30 | |
| 4,337 | 6,836 | |
| 0.3% | 0.6% | |
| 0.0 | 3.5 | |
| 8 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| TypeScript | Go | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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grpc-web
Posts with mentions or reviews of grpc-web.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-05.
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Full Stack Forays with Go and gRPC
A proxy is required to communicate from web clients to a server running gRPC, and there are only two choices for this proxy: a. The Improbable gRPC-Web client or b. The Google gRPC-Web client
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gRPC + Envoy + grpc-web = scalable multiplexed streaming?
I'll have to try the Improbable method (https://github.com/improbable-eng/grpc-web) - as it definitely includes a websocket transport, hopefully this multiplexes requests on that transport and would hence solve the problem. I'll post again once I know...
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API Gateway in Go for Websockets to Websockets communication
I think you should check out https://github.com/improbable-eng/grpc-web/tree/master/go/grpcwebproxy
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RPC in Go using Twitch's Twirp
What I like with gRPC is that it allows both client and server side streaming. Twirp seems to not have this feature at all. In contrast the https://github.com/improbable-eng/grpc-web even supports server and client streaming while wrapping gRPC in a HTTP1.1 Web connection.
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Goomerang 🪃 A protocol buffers over websockets communications library
I highly recommend also to look into https://github.com/improbable-eng/grpc-web in contrast to the 'official' gRPC-web from google the improbable-eng Implementation can do both server side and client side gRPC streaming (when used with their JavaScript client library) and all this on an http1.1/websocket basis...
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is there any startup or famous web app using grpc/grpc-web for their frontend
We use https://github.com/improbable-eng/grpc-web for the server part with https://github.com/protobufjs/protobuf.js on the frontend.
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Why isn't gRPC used more for browser to api transport over REST / graphql?
I'm debating whether or not to rely on grpc for all client to API transport using improbable-eng's grpc-web project. The hesitation I'm running into is concern over unforeseen pitfalls. The fact that it isn't widely used is the main cause for my apprehension.
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Aspiring Golang Developer here, could you suggest a few ideas of what I could write with Golang?
If you use https://github.com/improbable-eng/grpc-web you do not need envoy, you can wrap your golang grpc connection. I then mux the grpc and grpc-web so that I can use the same endpoint to serve http1 and http2 clients. This makes it easy to host on the cloud, eg. google cloud run.
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Can App Load Balancer or ECS (Fargate) handle HTTP1 proxying for gRPC services?
I'm setting up a server portion of a website which uses (g)RPC. My dev setup is a docker-compose.yml that starts up my server on 50051 & another service that runs grpcwebproxy (exposes 8080 and proxies to my server @ 50051).
- JROH - Solution & Framework for JSON-RPC over HTTP
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.
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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?
When comparing grpc-web 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
ts-proto - An idiomatic protobuf generator for TypeScript
prisma-client-go - Prisma Client Go is an auto-generated and fully type-safe database client
protoc-gen-validate - Protocol Buffer Validation - Being replaced by github.com/bufbuild/protovalidate
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.
grpc-json-mock - This is a mock of grpc used for front-end development. Prepare the server using nodejs.
openapi - an OpenAPI 3.x library for go
Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
efaceconv
gRPC - The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)