gRPC is a modern open source high performance (Google) Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. gRPC uses protobuf which is Protocol Buffers as a data format used to serialize structured data.
This repository is an example of gRPC server and client written with node and typescript. This example covers only the following streaming methods available in gRPC:
- Unary RPC Call
- Server Streaming RPC Call
- Client Streaming RPC Call
- Bidirectional Streaming RPC Call [ Not Covered in this example ]
Clone the repository locally. Navigate to the directory and run the following command to install all required dependencies. Please note that you need to have yarn installed in your system.
yarn install
and afterwards, to run the server
yarn server
and to run the client
yarn client
If you wish to make changes to the proto files, these are located inside the protos directory. After making changes to the proto files, a generator needs to be run inorder to generate all the ts code required.
The generator is already available as a bash script proto-generator.sh in the root directory and you can use the command below to run the generator script.
yarn proto:generate
If you wish to play around with only one RPC call at a time, you can comment out other RPC calls in the file client.ts and run the client.
- NodeJs
- Typescript
- gRPC Js
- gRPC Proto Loader