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by sa46 1917 days ago
I adore gRPC but figuring out how to use it from browser JavaScript is painful. The official grpc-web [1] client requires envoy on the server which I don't want. The improbable-eng grpc-web [2] implementation has a native Go proxy you can integrate into a server, but seems riddled with caveats and feels a bit immature overall.

Does grpc-web work well? Is there a way to skip the proxy layer and use protobufs directly if you use websockets?

[1]: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web [2]: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web