This requires Node 10.x or greater.
Clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc-common.git
Download the grpc debian packages from the latest grpc release and install them.
apt-get install
$ wget https://github.com/grpc/grpc/releases/download/release-0_5_0/libgrpc_0.5.0_amd64.deb $ wget https://github.com/grpc/grpc/releases/download/release-0_5_0/libgrpc-dev_0.5.0_amd64.deb $ sudo dpkg -i libgrpc_0.5.0_amd64.deb libgrpc-dev_0.5.0_amd64.deb
Install this package's dependencies
$ cd grpc-common/node $ npm install
Run the server
$ # from this directory (grpc_common/node). $ node ./greeter_server.js &
Run the client
$ # from this directory $ node ./greeter_client.js
This directory has a copy of helloworld.proto
because it currently depends on some Protocol Buffer 2.0 syntax that is deprecated in Protocol Buffer 3.0.
You can find a more detailed tutorial in gRPC Basics: Node.js.