gRPC in 3 minutes (Node.js)

PREREQUISITES

This requires Node 10.x or greater.

INSTALL

• 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.

  • Later, it will possible to install them directly using 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
  

TRY IT!

• Run the server

  $ # from this directory (grpc_common/node).
  $ node ./greeter_server.js &
  

• Run the client

  $ # from this directory
  $ node ./greeter_client.js
  

NOTE

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.

TUTORIAL

You can find a more detailed tutorial in gRPC Basics: Node.js.