gRPC with TypeScript

This project contain example that create microservice with gRPC + Typescript

Packages 📦

• typescript
• @grpc/grpc-js
• google-protobuf
• grpc-tools
• grpc_tools_node_protoc_ts

Important ⚠️

To develop with typescript it is necessary to install the packages below. Because these packages are responsible for compiling and generating types that proto files.

$ yarn add -D @types/long grpc_tools_node_protoc_ts grpc-tools

//package.json

"scripts": {
    "compile": "grpc_tools_node_protoc --js_out=import_style=commonjs,binary:./proto --grpc_out=grpc_js:./proto -I ./proto ./proto/*.proto && grpc_tools_node_protoc --plugin=protoc-gen-ts=./node_modules/.bin/protoc-gen-ts --ts_out=grpc_js:./proto -I ./proto ./proto/*.proto",
    "dev:server": "ts-node-dev --transpile-only --inspect --ignore-watch node_modules server/src/index.ts",
    "dev:client": "ts-node-dev --transpile-only --inspect --ignore-watch node_modules client/src/index.ts"
  }

Inicialize 🔰

Install dependencies

$ yarn 

Up Server

$ yarn dev:server

Up Client

$ yarn dev:client

References

Lucas Santos - O guia completo do gRPC parte 3: Tipos em tudo com TypeScript!

Pure Js https://grpc.io/docs/languages/node/quickstart/