This requires Node 10.x or greater.
Clone this repository
$ git clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc-common.git
Follow the instructions in INSTALL to install the gRPC C core.
Install this package's dependencies
$ cd grpc-common/node $ npm install # If grpc is not found, you'll need to install it from the grpc repository $ git clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc.git $ npm install path/to/grpc/src/node
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.