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by jbrandhorst 2722 days ago
I'm the author of this blog post and one of the maintainers of the Improbable grpc-web implementation.

I don't explicitly mention it in the post, but no browser has support for fetch request streaming yet, so true bidirectionality would not be possible even if you had control over the headers. This will come eventually, and then grpc-web will have proper bi-di streaming support. It is doubtful whether it will actually have access to raw HTTP/2 frames which would be required for the gRPC HTTP/2 protocol.