[kostyay]

Thanks for the write up.

> grpc-web never worked well for me. connectrpc is good alternative for the client side libraries. The code it generates is much better than the one produced by grpc-web (and the 3-4 different plugins on the market for it). it also supports grpc-web encoding out of the box. we are still using grpc-web internally just with connectrpc generated clients. The frontend engineers were extremely happy when we moved from the grpc-web clients to but ones. The DX is much better.

> grpc-gateway works pretty well, though. I think grpc-gateway is a decent choice if you are building REST api for internal use. It does feel like an unfinished product (well.. it is a community effort). Specifically if you decide to follow Google's AIPs guidelines (https://google.aip.dev/general) you may find that some things are not implemented. Another downside of it is that it can't produce OpenAPI v3.