protobuf-es
grpc-web
protobuf-es | grpc-web | |
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7 | 33 | |
937 | 8,309 | |
2.8% | 0.8% | |
9.2 | 6.4 | |
2 days ago | 19 days ago | |
TypeScript | JavaScript | |
Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 |
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protobuf-es
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gut: convert golang structs to typescript interfaces
Yes, you can. You are mistaking protobuf with gRPC. See this for more information.
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TypeScript type safety with GO
You can use this with connect: https://github.com/bufbuild/protobuf-es
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Ask HN: Why isn't JSON-RPC more widely adopted?
Ah you should check out https://github.com/bufbuild/protobuf-es which feels great so far. Then there's connect by the same buf people but it has a grpc-web option https://connect.build/docs/web/getting-started/. The amount of code generated is also tiny, which I love.
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Connect-Web: ergonomic Protobuf & gRPC for browsers
I'd recommend looking into protobuf-ts (Timo from Buf) or protobuf-es (Buf maintained).
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Connect-Web: It's time for Protobuf/gRPC to be your first choice in the browser
Not sure if it is a magic bullet, but it was definitely written by TypeScript developers, for TypeScript developers.
The generated TypeScript code is already pretty minimal because all serialization ops are implemented with reflection instead of generated code (which is only marginally slower than generated code in JS).
But you can also switch to generating JavaScript + TypeScript declaration files, which is truly minimal: JavaScript is an entire dynamic language, so we actually only generated a small snippet of metadata in the .js output, and create a class at run time with a function call. The generated typings (.d.ts) give you type safety, autocompletion in the IDE, and so on.
You can see the output here: https://github.com/bufbuild/protobuf-es/blob/main/packages/p...
- Connect: A Better gRPC
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.
What are some alternatives?
ts-proto - An idiomatic protobuf generator for TypeScript
ngx-grpc - Angular gRPC framework
connect-go - Moved to https://github.com/connectrpc/connect-go
grpc-over-webrtc - gRPC over WebRTC
bloomrpc - Former GUI client for gRPC services. No longer maintained.
grpcurl - Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers
protobuf-ts - Protobuf and RPC for TypeScript
buf - The best way of working with Protocol Buffers.
webrpc - webrpc is a schema-driven approach to writing backend services for modern Web apps and networks
connect-es - The TypeScript implementation of Connect: Protobuf RPC that works.
evans - Evans: more expressive universal gRPC client