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# Awesome gRPC [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge.svg)](https://awesome.re)



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> A curated list of useful resources for gRPC



## Contents



- [Documentation](#documentation)

- [Community](#community)

- [Official Libraries and Tools](#official)

- [Tools](#tools)

  * [CLI](#tools-cli)

  * [GUI](#tools-gui)

  * [Testing](#tools-test)

  * [Other](#tools-other)

- [Language-Specific](#lang)

  * [Go](#lang-go)

  * [Node.js](#lang-nodejs)

  * [Java](#lang-java)

  * [Ruby](#lang-ruby)

  * [Python](#lang-py)

  * [C#](#lang-cs)

  * [Rust](#lang-rust)

  * [Haskell](#lang-hs)

  * [Erlang](#lang-erlang)

  * [Elixir](#lang-elixir)

  * [Elm](#lang-elm)

  * [TypeScript](#lang-ts)

  * [Scala](#lang-scala)

  * [Dart](#lang-dart)

  * [Kotlin](#lang-kotlin)

  * [Perl](#lang-perl)

  * [C++](#lang-cpp)

  * [Ballerina](#lang-ballerina)

- [Resources](#resources)

  * [Tutorials](#res-tuts)

  * [Videos](#res-videos)

  * [Slides](#res-slides)

  * [Examples](#res-examples)

  * [Miscellaneous](#res-misc)

- [Protocol Buffers](#proto)

  * [Documentation](#proto-docs)

  * [Package Managers](#proto-package-managers)

  * [Tools](#proto-tools)

- [Similar](#similar)



## Documentation



- [Website](https://grpc.io/) - Official documentation, libraries, resources, samples and FAQ

- [Technical documentation](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/tree/master/doc) - Collection of useful technical documentation

- [gRPC status codes](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/statuscodes.md) - Status codes and their use in gRPC

- [gRPC status code mapping](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/http-grpc-status-mapping.md) - HTTP to gRPC Status Code Mapping

- [grpc-errors](https://github.com/avinassh/grpc-errors) - Code examples in each language on how to return and handle error statuses.

- [API Design Guide](https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/) - Google Cloud API Design Guide useful for gRPC API design insights



## Community



- [Community links](https://grpc.io/community/) - Mailing list, Gitter, Twitter, Reddit





## Official Libraries and Tools



- [gRPC Core](https://github.com/grpc/grpc) - C, C++, Ruby, Node.js, Python, PHP, C#, Objective-C

- [gRPC Java](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java) - The Java gRPC implementation. HTTP/2 based RPC

- [gRPC Kotlin](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-kotlin) - The Kotlin gRPC implementation. Based on gRPC Java

- [gRPC Node.js](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-node) - gRPC for Node.js

- [gRPC Go](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-go) - The Go language implementation of gRPC. HTTP/2 based RPC

- [gRPC Swift](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-swift) - The Swift language implementation of gRPC

- [gRPC Dart](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-dart) - The Dart language implementation of gRPC

- [gRPC C#](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-dotnet) - The C# language implementation of gRPC

- [gRPC Web](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web) - gRPC for Web Clients

- [gRPC Ecosystem](https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem) - gRPC Ecosystem that complements gRPC

- [gRPC contrib](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-contrib) - Known useful contributions around github

- [grpc_cli](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/doc/command_line_tool.md) - gRPC CLI tool



## Tools





### CLI



- [polyglot](https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/polyglot) - A gRPC command line client written in Java

- [grpcc](https://github.com/njpatel/grpcc) - Node.js grpc command-line client

- [gcall](https://github.com/bojand/gcall) - Simple Node.js gRPC command line interface

- [Evans](https://github.com/ktr0731/evans) - more expressive universal gRPC (CLI) client

- [grpcurl](https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl) - Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers

- [httpyac](https://httpyac.github.io/guide/installation_cli.html) - a command line client for executing integration tests for all kinds of requests (gRPC, HTTP, MQTT, Websocket).

- [protodot](https://github.com/seamia/protodot) - Transforming your .proto files into .dot files (and .svg, .png if you happen to have graphviz installed)

- [grpc-client-cli](https://github.com/vadimi/grpc-client-cli) - interactive gRPC client

- [proto2asciidoc](https://github.com/productsupcom/proto2asciidoc) - Generate AsciiDoc documentation from a .proto file

- [proto-to-postman](https://github.com/sonatard/proto-to-postman) - Create postman API import collection from .proto files

- [gWhisper](https://github.com/IBM/gWhisper) - Client with interactive tab-completion (uses reflection) and human readable format

- [grpcdebug](https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpcdebug) - Debugs serving gRPC applications with tools like channel trace info, xDS config dump, and health checking

- [sylk](https://www.sylk.build) - A gRPC framework for building projects in __Python__, __Typescript__ / __NodeJS__ and __Go__ from a simple CLI and powerful `Beta` UI platform

- [grpcmd](https://github.com/grpcmd/grpcmd) - A simple, easy-to-use, and developer-friendly CLI tool for gRPC.





### GUI



- [Postman](https://postman.com/) - Create, test, and debug gRPC services directly from Postman

- [letmegrpc](https://github.com/gogo/letmegrpc) - Generate a web form gui from a grpc specification

- [omgRPC](https://github.com/troylelandshields/omgrpc) (Deprecated) - A GUI client for interacting with gRPC services, similar to what Postman is for REST APIs

- [grpcui](https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcui) - An interactive web UI for gRPC, along the lines of postman (also, a Go library for embedding these web UIs into Go HTTP servers)

- [BloomRPC](https://github.com/uw-labs/bloomrpc) (Deprecated) - A nice and simple GUI Client. Exploring and interacting with gRPC and gRPC-web services has never been simpler, Inspired By GraphQL-Playground and Postman

- [gRPCox](https://github.com/gusaul/grpcox) - Like Postman, but for gRPC. web based GUI Client for gRPC, extremely easy to use.

- [vscode-httpyac](https://httpyac.github.io/guide/installation_vscode.html) - A VSCode extension which supports sending all kinds of requests (gRPC, HTTP, MQTT, Websocket)

- [Milkman](https://github.com/warmuuh/milkman) - Extensible alternative to Postman for crafting all kinds of requests, not only for gRPC, also http, sql etc.

- [MuninRPC](https://github.com/muninrpc/muninrpc) - Protobuf request and response testing application under the gRPC system.

- [Delivery](https://github.com/kfwerf/delivery) - A simple electron app for gRPC that uses gRPCurl to autodetect all endpoints/methods and their request bodies, just modify the JSON body. Simplicity in mind.

- [(Yodelay.io)](https://github.com/oslabs-beta/Yodelay) - A browser GUI Making sure your outbound 🗣️ ‘yodelay’ returns the ‘IiiOoo’ 📣 that you expect.

- [Wombat](https://github.com/rogchap/wombat) - A cross platform gRPC client. Auto-generates input fields from your proto files or the gRPC reflection API. Not another Electron app - built with Qt and Go.

- [Kreya](https://kreya.app) - A gRPC and gRPC-web client supporting environments, templating, authentication schemes and file based syncing.

- [Plumber](https://github.com/pashkatrick/Plumber) - Another one GUI for GRPC requests (reflection only)

- [Fint](http://bytesmotion.com/fint) - Create, run, manage performance tests and functional tests cases for gRPC service in a single (commercial) tool

- [Protocall](https://protocall.dev) - A browser-based gRPC & protobuf API client.  Integrates with Github and automatically resolves all proto imports with no manual configuration.

- [Grip](https://gripgrpc.dev) - Native macOS client for interacting with gRPC services

- [ezy](https://github.com/getezy/ezy) - 🔥 Fully-featured GUI client for gRPC/gRPC-Web.

- [Warthog](https://github.com/forest33/warthog) - A cross platform gRPC client. Input generation for all types, including nested and looped messages. Saving requests and servers.

- [ptg](https://github.com/crossoverjie/ptg) - GUI gRPC client, it is also a performance testing tool.





### Testing



- [ghz](https://github.com/bojand/ghz) - Simple gRPC benchmarking and load testing tool inspired by hey and grpcurl.

- [gatling-grpc](https://github.com/phiSgr/gatling-grpc) - A [Gatling](http://gatling.io/) stress test plugin for gRPC.

- [karate-grpc](https://github.com/karatelabs/karate-examples/blob/main/grpc) - Example of using [Karate](https://github.com/karatelabs/karate) to integrate and test gRPC.

- [strest-grpc](https://github.com/BuoyantIO/strest-grpc) - A load tester for stress testing grpc intermediaries.

- [hazana](https://github.com/emicklei/hazana) - A Go package for creating load test tooling. Supports gRPC.

- [fortio](https://github.com/fortio/fortio) - A microservices (http, grpc) load testing library and tool from Istio project.

- [grpc-swagger](https://github.com/grpc-swagger/grpc-swagger) - Debugging gRPC application with swagger-ui.

- [grpc-tools](https://github.com/bradleyjkemp/grpc-tools) - A suite of gRPC debugging tools. Like Fiddler/Charles but for gRPC.

- [jmeter-grpc-plugin](https://github.com/zalopay-oss/jmeter-grpc-plugin) - A plugin supports load test gRPC service with Jmeter.

- [camouflage](https://github.com/testinggospels/camouflage) - Camouflage is a backend mocking tool for HTTP, gRPC and Websockets protocols.

- [Mediator](https://github.com/ButterCam/Mediator) - Cross-platform GUI gRPC debugging proxy like charles but design for gRPC.

- [grpc_bench](https://github.com/LesnyRumcajs/grpc_bench) - A suite of gRPC benchmarks for different technologies.

- [grpcdump](https://github.com/rmedvedev/grpcdump) - Tool for capture and decode GRPC messages from ethernet traffic only for Linux

- [nosymouse](https://nosymouse.io/) - Saas tool to functional, perfomance and secure testing gRPC

- [Step CI](https://github.com/stepci/stepci) - Open-Source API Testing and Monitoring (now with gRPC support!)

- [Microcks](https://github.com/microcks/microcks) - A [Cloud Native Computing Sandbox project](https://landscape.cncf.io/?selected=microcks) 🚀 dedicated to API Mocking and Testing ([gRPC supported](https://microcks.io/documentation/using/grpc/))





### Other



- [kafka-pixy](https://github.com/mailgun/kafka-pixy) - gRPC/REST proxy for Kafka

- [grpc-proxy](https://github.com/mwitkow/grpc-proxy) - gRPC reverse proxy with the goal of making it easy to expose gRPC services over the internet

- [ratelimit](https://github.com/lyft/ratelimit) - Go/gRPC service designed to enable generic rate limit scenarios from different types of applications

- [ProfaneDB](https://gitlab.com/ProfaneDB/ProfaneDB) - A Protocol Buffers database with gRPC API, built in C++ on top of RocksDB

- [danby](https://github.com/ericbets/danby) - A grpc proxy for the browser

- [docker-protoc](https://github.com/namely/docker-protoc) - Dockerized protoc, grpc-gateway, and grpc_cli commands bundled with Google API libraries

- [grpc-json-proxy](https://github.com/jnewmano/grpc-json-proxy) - A proxy which allows existing tools like Postman or curl to interact with gRPC servers

- [protoc-gen-gotemplate](https://github.com/moul/protoc-gen-gotemplate) - Generic generator based on golang's template system

- [grpc-http-proxy](https://github.com/mercari/grpc-http-proxy) - A reverse proxy server which translate JSON HTTP requests to gRPC calls based on protoreflect

- [grpc-mate](https://github.com/gdong42/grpc-mate) - A dynamic proxy server that translates JSON HTTP requests into gRPC calls

- [jawlb](https://github.com/joa/jawlb) - An unsophisticated grpclb load balancer implementation for Kubernetes and gRPC

- [protoc-gen-hbs](https://github.com/gponsinet/protoc-gen-hbs) - Fast and easy protobuf generation with handlebars and some helpers

- [grpcson](https://github.com/siyanew/grpcson) - An easy to use proxy which translates JSON HTTP requests to gRPC calls with web ui

- [rk-grpc](https://github.com/rookie-ninja/rk-grpc) - Middleware and bootstrapper library for gRPC with logging, metrics, auth, tracing etc.

- [PropaneDB](https://github.com/elan8/propanedb) - A Protocol Buffers database with gRPC API and Golang driver.

- [APISIX](https://github.com/apache/apisix) - An api gateway that supports gRPC, HTTP(s) to gRPC and gRPC web request proxying.

- [Zilla](https://github.com/aklivity/zilla) - An API gateway built for event-driven architectures and streaming that supports standard protocols such as HTTP, SSE, gRPC, MQTT and the native Kafka protocol.

- [grpc-pentest-suite](https://github.com/nxenon/grpc-pentest-suite) - A collection of tools for pentesting gRPC-Web, including a Burp Suite extension for manipulating gRPC-Web payloads.






## Language-Specific





### Go

- [go-GRPC Micro](https://github.com/micro/go-grpc) - [Micro](https://github.com/micro) based gRPC framework for microservices

- [go-kit gRPC](https://github.com/go-kit/kit/tree/master/transport/grpc) - [Go Kit](https://github.com/go-kit) with gRPC as transport

- [gRPC over NATS](https://github.com/rapidloop/nrpc) - nRPC is an RPC framework like gRPC, but for NATS.

- [grpc-web](https://github.com/improbable-eng/grpc-web) - gRPC Web implementation for Golang and TypeScript

- [grpc-web-devtools](https://github.com/SafetyCulture/grpc-web-devtools) - Chrome Browser extension to aid gRPC-Web development

- [rpcx](https://github.com/smallnest/rpcx) - A RPC service framework based on net/rpc like alibaba Dubbo and weibo Motan

- [grpclb](https://github.com/bsm/grpclb) - External Load Balancing Service solution for gRPC written in Go

- [grpc-proxy](https://github.com/mwitkow/grpc-proxy) - gRPC proxy is a Go reverse proxy that allows for rich routing of gRPC calls with minimum overhead

- [go-microservice-helpers](https://github.com/google/go-microservice-helpers) - A collection of handy snippets that simplify creation of gRPC servers and clients

- [lile](https://github.com/lileio/lile) - Easily create gRPC services in Go

- [proteus](https://github.com/src-d/proteus) - Generate .proto files from Go source code

- [protoc-gen-cobra](https://github.com/fiorix/protoc-gen-cobra) - Command line tool generator for Go gRPC

- [gRPC over WebSocket](https://github.com/glerchundi/grpc-boomerang) - connect to a gRPC Server behind a firewall by using a pre-established WebSocket connection

- [yarpc](https://github.com/yarpc/yarpc-go) - A message passing platform for Go, including support for gRPC

- [promgrpc](https://github.com/piotrkowalczuk/promgrpc) - Prometheus instrumentation for gRPC based services

- [protoreflect](https://github.com/jhump/protoreflect) - Reflection (Rich Descriptors) for Go Protocol Buffers

- [grpchan](https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpchan) - Channels for gRPC: custom transports, such as in-process and HTTP 1.1

- [grpcui](https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcui) - Embed a gRPC web UI into a Go gRPC/HTTP server

- [clay](https://github.com/utrack/clay) - Minimal server platform for gRPС+REST+Swagger APIs

- [grpc-consul-resolver](https://github.com/mbobakov/grpc-consul-resolver) - Easy to use endpoints resolver for the services registered in the [Consul](https://www.consul.io/)

- [kuberesolver](https://github.com/sercand/kuberesolver) - gRPC Load Balancer with Kubernetes resolver

- [ttrpc](https://github.com/containerd/ttrpc) - GRPC for low-memory environments

- [grapi](https://github.com/izumin5210/grapi) - 😮 A surprisingly easy API server and generator in gRPC and Go

- [gripmock](https://github.com/tokopedia/gripmock) - gRPC Mock Server

- [grpc-gateway-boilerplate](https://github.com/johanbrandhorst/grpc-gateway-boilerplate) - All the boilerplate you need to get started with writing grpc-gateway powered REST services in Go

- [protoc-gen-struct-transformer](https://github.com/bold-commerce/protoc-gen-struct-transformer) - Transformation function generator for protocol buffers.

- [cmux](https://github.com/soheilhy/cmux) - Connection multiplexer for GoLang: serve different services on the same port! Supports gRPC.

- [go-grpc-channelz](https://github.com/rantav/go-grpc-channelz) - A channelz UI for Golang. Channelz is an approved and already implemented proposal describing the inner state of gRPC connections/channels. go-grpc-channelz provides a simple UI for channelz for easy diagnosis.

- [goprotoc](https://github.com/jhump/goprotoc) - Library for writing protoc plugins in Go; also includes a pure-Go protoc replacement.

- [gRPC for production](https://github.com/apssouza22/grpc-server-go) - A Golang project that provides the core requirements for a production-ready gRPC communication.

- [protoc-gen-mock](https://github.com/carvalhorr/protoc-gen-mock) - A protoc plugin to generate gRPC mock services from proto definitions in Golang

- [Pike](https://github.com/sashabaranov/pike) — Generate CRUD gRPC backends from single YAML description

- [Mortar](https://github.com/go-masonry/mortar) - GO framework for building gRPC (and REST) web services with DI, Telemetry and more

- [sqlc-grpc](https://github.com/walterwanderley/sqlc-grpc) - Generate gRPC/HTTP server (with metrics, tracing, swagger and grpcui) from SQL

- [protoc-gen-fieldmask](https://github.com/idodod/protoc-gen-fieldmask) - A protoc plugin that generates fieldmask paths as static type properties of proto messages





### Node.js

- [Mali](https://github.com/malijs/mali) - A minimalistic gRPC microservice framework for Node.js

- [grpc-host-builder](https://github.com/litichevskiydv/grpc-host-builder) - Lightweight library for building gRPC services with server side interceptors support

- [grpc-caller](https://github.com/bojand/grpc-caller) - An improved Node.js gRPC client

- [grpc-create-metadata](https://github.com/bojand/grpc-create-metadata) - Helper utility for creating gRPC `Metadata`

- [grpc-create-error](https://github.com/bojand/grpc-create-error) - Utility function for creating `Errors` for gRPC responses

- [grpc-error](https://github.com/bojand/grpc-error) - `GRPCError` class that wraps `create-grpc-error`

- [grpc-inspect](https://github.com/bojand/grpc-inspect) - gRPC protocol buffer inspection utility

- [Node.js Proto Files](https://github.com/googleapis/nodejs-proto-files) - All of the Google API's protocol buffer files

- [grpc-bus](https://github.com/paralin/grpc-bus) - Call gRPC services (even streams!) from the browser over any two-way socket to Node and soon Go

- [grpc-errors](https://github.com/ortoo/grpc-errors) - A quick and easy way of generating errors for use with grpc

- [grpc-dynamic-gateway](https://github.com/konsumer/grpc-dynamic-gateway) - Like grpc-gateway, but written in node and dynamic.

- [node-protoc-plugin](https://github.com/konsumer/node-protoc-plugin) - Create protoc code-generation plugins easily in nodejs.

- [grpc-promise](https://github.com/carlessistare/grpc-promise) - GRPC promisify module for all Request/Response types: standard and stream

- [firecomm](https://github.com/firecomm/firecomm) - Feature library for gRPC-Node

- [grpc-web-gateway](https://github.com/dialogs/grpc-web-gateway) – HTTP & WebSocket proxy gateway for gRPC services

- [grpc-reflection-js](https://github.com/redhoyasa/grpc-reflection-js) – gRPC Reflection client for JS





### Java



- [gax-java](https://github.com/googleapis/gax-java) - Google API Extensions for Java

- [Armeria](https://github.com/line/armeria) - Asynchronous RPC/REST library built on top of Java 8, Netty, HTTP/2, Thrift and gRPC

- [grpc-spring-boot-starter](https://github.com/yidongnan/grpc-spring-boot-starter) - Spring Boot starter module for gRPC framework

- [grpc-spring-boot-starter](https://github.com/LogNet/grpc-spring-boot-starter) Spring Boot starter module for gRPC framework from LogNet.

- [reactive-grpc](https://github.com/salesforce/reactive-grpc) - Integrates reactive programming with grpc-java

- [grpc-java-contrib](https://github.com/salesforce/grpc-java-contrib) - Useful extensions for the grpc-java library

- [rejoiner](https://github.com/google/rejoiner) - Generates a GraphQL schema from gRPC microservices

- [hoverfly-java-grpc](https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.specto/hoverfly-java-grpc) - MITM proxy for recording and simulating gRPC services

- [grpcmock](https://github.com/Fadelis/grpcmock) - A gRPC Java testing tool to easily mock endpoints of gRPC services for IT or Unit testing

- [protoc-gen-java-optional](https://github.com/Fadelis/protoc-gen-java-optional) - A Java Protoc plugin extending generated java classes with null safe `setOrClear` and `getOptional` methods.





### Ruby



- [gruf](https://github.com/bigcommerce/gruf) - gRPC Ruby Framework

- [gapic-generator-ruby](https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-ruby) - Generates Ruby gRPC client libraries from protocol buffer definitions of an API.





### Python



- [Bali](https://github.com/bali-framework/bali) - Simplify Cloud Native Microservices development base on FastAPI and gRPC.

- [grpclib](https://github.com/vmagamedov/grpclib) - Pure-Python gRPC implementation, based on hyper-h2 project

- [pytest-grpc](https://github.com/kataev/pytest-grpc) - pytest plugin which allow test gRPC services

- [grpcalchemy](https://github.com/GuangTianLi/grpcalchemy) - The Python micro framework for building gPRC application

- [django-grpc](https://github.com/gluk-w/django-grpc) - Django application to build gRPC services with access to ORM, settings and everything else

- [garuda](https://github.com/dhilipsiva/garuda) - Automagically Exposing Django ORM over gRPC for microservices written in any other languages

- [django-grpc-framework](https://github.com/fengsp/django-grpc-framework) - A gRPC toolkit for Django inspired by djangorestframework

- [grpc_requests](https://github.com/wesky93/grpc_requests) - GRPC for Humans! grpc reflection support client. you can request grpc just like REST(No need Stub!)

- [betterproto](https://github.com/danielgtaylor/python-betterproto) - More pythonic gRPC based on grpclib and dataclasses





### C#



- [MagicOnion](https://github.com/neuecc/MagicOnion) - gRPC based HTTP/2 RPC Streaming Framework for .NET, .NET Core and Unity

- [Grpc.Tools](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Grpc.Tools/) - gRPC and Protocol Buffer compiler for managed C# and native C++ projects. See [Introduction to gRPC on .NET Core](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/grpc/?view=aspnetcore-3.0) tutorial.

- [GrpcBrowser](https://github.com/thomaswormald/grpc-browser) - a web UI for interactively debugging all types of gRPC endpoints





### Rust



- [grpc-rs](https://github.com/pingcap/grpc-rs) - The gRPC library for Rust built on C Core library and futures

- [grpc-rust](https://github.com/stepancheg/grpc-rust) - Rust implementation of gRPC

- [tower-grpc](https://github.com/tower-rs/tower-grpc) - A client and server gRPC implementation based on Tower

- [tonic](https://github.com/hyperium/tonic) - A native gRPC client & server implementation with async/await support





### Haskell



- [grpc-haskell](https://github.com/grpc/grpc-haskell) - gRPC library binding for Haskell





### Erlang



- [Erlang grpc](https://github.com/bluehouse-technology/grpc) - Erlang library for gRPC

- [grpcbox](https://github.com/tsloughter/grpcbox) - Erlang grpc client and server

- [bert](https://github.com/synrc/bert) - Erlang Google Protobuf V3 generator from HRL files





### Elixir



- [grpc-elixir](https://github.com/tony612/grpc-elixir) - The Elixir implementation of gRPC





### Elm



- [elm-protobuf](https://github.com/tiziano88/elm-protobuf) - Protoc plugin generating elm code from proto definitions





### TypeScript



- [ts-protoc-gen](https://github.com/improbable-eng/ts-protoc-gen) - Protoc Plugin for TypeScript Declarations

- [protoc-gen-tstypes](https://godoc.org/github.com/tmc/grpcutil/protoc-gen-tstypes) - Configurable Protoc Plugin to generate TypeScript types.

- [sisyphus.js](https://github.com/ButterCam/sisyphus-js) - gRPC runtime and compiler for Web Clients by HTTP transcoding. Recommend using with [Sisyphus](https://github.com/ButterCam/sisyphus) back-end framework.

- [protoc-gen-grpc-gateway-ts](https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/protoc-gen-grpc-gateway-ts) - TypeScript client generator for the grpc-gateway project that generates idiomatic TypeScript clients that connect the web frontend and golang backend fronted by grpc-gateway.

- [protobuf-ts](https://github.com/timostamm/protobuf-ts) - Protoc plugin and runtime for TypeScript. Generates gRPC server/client for Node.js, gRPC-Web/Twirp clients for browser, uses Fetch API.

- [ts-proto](https://github.com/stephenh/ts-proto) - Transforms your .proto files into strongly-typed, idiomatic TypeScript files!

- [grpc-js-typescript](https://github.com/badsyntax/grpc-js-typescript) - Examples of how to use gRPC with TypeScript & Node.js.

- [nice-grpc](https://github.com/deeplay-io/nice-grpc) - gRPC library for Node.js and the Browser with modern API and middleware support.





### Scala



- [ScalaPB](https://scalapb.github.io/) - Protocol Buffer Compiler for Scala

- [Akka-gRPC](https://developer.lightbend.com/docs/akka-grpc/current/) - Akka gRPC provides support for building streaming gRPC servers and clients on top of Akka Streams.

- [Mu](https://higherkindness.github.io/mu/) - Mu RPC is a purely functional library for building RPC endpoint-based services with support for gRPC and HTTP/2





### Dart



- [grpc-dart](https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/grpc) - Protocol Buffer Compiler for Dart





### Kotlin



- [kroto-plus](https://github.com/marcoferrer/kroto-plus) - gRPC Coroutines Integration and Protobuf message DSL support

- [grpc-kotlin](https://github.com/rouzwawi/grpc-kotlin) - A protoc plugin for generating native Kotlin bindings using coroutine primitives for gRPC services

- [gapic-generator-kotlin](https://github.com/googleapis/gapic-generator-kotlin) - Generates coroutine-based gRPC Kotlin client libraries from a protocol buffer description of an API

- [grpc-kapt](https://github.com/google/grpc-kapt) - Annotation driven gRPC clients & servers in Kotlin with coroutines

- [sisyphus](https://github.com/ButterCam/sisyphus) - Modern gRPC back-end development framework based on Kotlin/Spring Boot with Message DSL/[HTTP transcoding](https://aip.bybutter.com/127)/[Google AIP](https://aip.bybutter.com) support.





### Perl



- [grpc-perl](https://github.com/joyrex2001/grpc-perl) - Experimental Perl gRPC library supporting grpc client



### C++




- [QtProtobuf](https://github.com/semlanik/qtprotobuf) - gRPC and Protobuf generator and bindings for the Qt framework

- [asio-grpc](https://github.com/Tradias/asio-grpc) - Asynchronous gRPC with [Boost.Asio](https://github.com/boostorg/asio) or [libunifex](https://github.com/facebookexperimental/libunifex)





### Ballerina



- [Ballerina gRPC](https://github.com/ballerina-platform/module-ballerina-grpc) - Ballerina library for gRPC

- [Ballerina gRPC CLI](https://github.com/ballerina-platform/protoc-tools) - Ballerina gRPC CLI tool



## Resources





### Tutorials



- [Getting Started with Microservices using Go, gRPC and Kubernetes](https://outcrawl.com/getting-started-microservices-go-grpc-kubernetes/)

- [gRPC in Production](https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/grpc-in-production-alan-shreve/)

- [gRPC Go: Beyond the basics](https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2017/go-grpc-beyond-basics/) - GopherAcademy article

- [Building High Performance APIs In Go Using gRPC](http://www.agiratech.com/building-high-performance-apis-go-grpc/) - Small tutorial on building a simple API using gRPC and Go

- [Bidirectional gRPC streaming for Go](https://rakyll.org/grpc-streaming/)

- [How We Build gRPC Services At Namely](https://medium.com/namely-labs/how-we-build-grpc-services-at-namely-52a3ae9e7c35) - Blog article from Namely Labs

- [Our experience designing and building gRPC services](https://blog.bugsnag.com/using-grpc-in-production/) - Blog series from Bugsnag on building a new Releases dashboard backend using gRPC

- [Writing gRPC Interceptors in Go](https://medium.com/@shijuvar/writing-grpc-interceptors-in-go-bf3e7671fe48) - A simple tutorial on gRPC Interceptors

- [An introduction to gRPC](https://devopedia.org/grpc)

- [How we use gRPC to build a client/server system in Go](https://medium.com/pantomath/how-we-use-grpc-to-build-a-client-server-system-in-go-dd20045fa1c2) - A technical presentation on how to use gRPC (and Protobuf) to build a robust client/server system

- [Serving gRPC and HTTP services on the same port](https://www.d3void.net/post/grpc-with-http/) - Small tutorial on how to serve http and gRPC on same port in Go

- [Take a REST with HTTP/2, Protobufs, and Swagger](https://coreos.com/blog/grpc-protobufs-swagger.html) - Small tutorial on how to serve http and gRPC on same port in Go

- [OpenCensus for Go gRPC developers](https://medium.com/@orijtech/opencensus-for-go-grpc-developers-7f3ee1ac3d6d) - Tutorial on how to use OpenCensus with gRPC and Go. Also available for [Java](https://medium.com/@orijtech/opencensus-for-java-grpc-developers-23c25de0a057) and [Python](https://medium.com/@orijtech/opencensus-for-python-grpc-developers-9e460e054395).

- [How to develop Go gRPC microservice with HTTP/REST endpoint, middleware, Kubernetes deployment, etc](https://medium.com/@amsokol.com/tutorial-how-to-develop-go-grpc-microservice-with-http-rest-endpoint-middleware-kubernetes-daebb36a97e9) - A series of blog posts for gRPC development using Go. [Source code](https://github.com/amsokol/go-grpc-http-rest-microservice-tutorial).

- [GopherJS Client and gRPC Server](https://jbrandhorst.com/post/gopherjs-client-grpc-server/) - A guide to implementing a GopherJS frontend to a gRPC backend exposed over HTTP via the gRPC-gateway. Also available [related gRPC-Web with GopherJS tutorial](https://jbrandhorst.com/post/gopherjs-grpcweb/).

- [The G-Unit Stack: Go, GraphQL, and gRPC](https://iheanyi.com/journal/2018/05/12/the-g-unit-stack-go-graphql-and-grpc/) - A blog post and tutorial on using Go, GraphQL and gRPC. Associated [repo](https://github.com/iheanyi/go-grpc-graphql-simple-example).

- [Envoy, gRPC, and Rate Limiting](https://venilnoronha.io/envoy-grpc-and-rate-limiting) - A tutorial on using gRPC and Envoy to build a rate limit service - [Venil Noronha](https://venilnoronha.io), VMware Open Source Technology Center

- [Seamless Cloud-Native Apps with gRPC-Web and Istio](https://venilnoronha.io/seamless-cloud-native-apps-with-grpc-web-and-istio) - A tutorial on building a Cloud-Native web app using gRPC-Web and Istio - [Venil Noronha](https://venilnoronha.io), VMware Open Source Technology Center

- [Backward and Forward Compatibility, Protobuf Versioning, Serialization](https://www.beautifulcode.co/backward-and-forward-compatibility-protobuf-versioning-serialization) - A small article on making gRPC API changes

- [Node, gRPC, and Postgres](https://mherman.org/blog/node-grpc-postgres/) - This tutorial looks at how to implement an API with Node, gRPC, and Postgres.

- [Building High Performance APIs In Go Using gRPC And Protocol Buffers](https://medium.com/@shijuvar/building-high-performance-apis-in-go-using-grpc-and-protocol-buffers-2eda5b80771b) - An introductory gRPC Go tutorial.

- [Understanding gRPC](https://www.vineethweb.com/post/grpc/) - An introductory gRPC tutorial with example application in Go.

- [Part 1: Demystifying gRPC](https://dev-state.com/posts/grpc_framework_1/) - A simple gRPC service with context cancelation and secure connection over SSL/TLS.

- [Part 2: Demystifying gRPC](https://dev-state.com/posts/grpc_framework_2/) - Extend the service with gRPC streaming and Python backend.

- [Part 3: Demystifying gRPC](https://dev-state.com/posts/grpc_framework_3/) - Add Unary and Stream gRPC Interceptors to a service and provide REST endpoints with grpc-gateway.

- [gRPC in Microservices](https://milad.dev/posts/grpc-in-microservices/) - Tutorial on using gRPC in microservice architetures.

- [gRPC and Protobuffer API Documentation with proto2asciidoc and code2asciidoc](https://blog.productsup.dev/2020/05/grpc-and-protobuffer-api-documentation-with-proto2asciidoc-and-code2asciidoc/) - Tutorial on generating AsciiDoc documentation from a .proto file, includes a small gRPC demo project too.

- [gRPC in Go](https://lixueduan.com/categories/gRPC/) - A detailed tutorial for play gRPC with Go.

- [gRPC: Top 6 Things that Bite Newbies](https://charles-thayer.medium.com/grpc-top-6-things-that-bite-newbies-dfa740ffc67d) - A review of stumbling blocks for those moving to gRPC for the first time.

- [A beginners guide to gRPC with Rust](https://dev.to/anshulgoyal15/a-beginners-guide-to-grpc-with-rust-3c7o)

- [Writing a gRPC service with Ballerina](https://ballerina.io/learn/write-a-grpc-service-with-ballerina/) - Getting started guide on building a simple gRPC service with Ballerina and invoking the service through a Ballerina gRPC client application.

- [gRPC-web: Using gRPC in Your Front-End Application](https://grpcguide.com/grpc-web-frontend) - A tutorial on using gRPC-web in a frontend application.

- [Load balancing gRPC in Kubernetes with a service mesh](https://www.useanvil.com/blog/engineering/load-balancing-grpc-in-kubernetes-with-istio) - Explains issues load balancing gRPC, then employs a service mesh (istio) to L7 load balance a gRPC service in Kubernetes.

- [RPC Adoption and Working Architecture](https://www.xenonstack.com/insights/what-is-grpc) - Overview of gRPC and comparison with REST and WebSockets.





### Videos



- [gRPC: Google's high-performance, open-source RPC framework](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZx3oZt7LVg) - GothamGo 2015 by Sameer Ajmani

- [Introduction to gRPC: A general RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUz2zjkKxFg) - Devoxx by Mete Atamel

- [gRPC: The Story of Microservices at Square](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2sWDr3Z0Wo) - Apigee webcast

- [Scalable Realtime Microservices with Kubernetes and gRPC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb8u2s7cxzg) - Mark Mandel @ Google

- [Text to Speech server with gRPC and Kubernetes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaMr--wAuSI) - justforfunc #12

- [GRPC Microservices 101](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t57ZQZpjqs) - Google Developer Group Washington by Ray Tsang

- [Efficient Microservices w/ Binary Protocol - gRPC 101](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqK-mwh3-aY) - By Ray Tsang

- [grpc: From Tutorial to Production](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FZ6ZyzGex0) - GopherCon 2017 by Alan Shreve

- [Scalable Microservices with gRPC, Kubernetes, and Docker](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsIwYL-N4vI) - Node Interactive 2016 by Sandeep Dinesh

- [Building Microservices w/gRPC & Kubernetes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27swR9HACWU) - Philly ETE 2016 #49 by Kelsey Hightower

- [Building high performance microservices with Kubernetes, Go, and gRPC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiNt4kUnnIM) - Google Cloud Next '17 by Andrew Jessup

- [Modifying gRPC Services Over Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2WYEFLTKEw) - Eric Anderson, Google at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 - Austin

- [Next Generation Services at Indeed Using gRPC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ2d9iLDR8Y) - Jaye Pitzeruse, Indeed.com at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2017 - Austin

- [Generating Unified APIs with Protocol Buffers and gRPC](https://www.infoq.com/presentations/api-pb-grpc) - A video on Protocol Buffers, gRPC and Envoy from Lyft.

- [Intro to gRPC: A Modern Toolkit for Microservice Communication](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoXT_Rkg8LA) - A video from Twilio's Signal Conference

- [gRPC and Go: Developing Efficient and Type-Safe Services](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-NTfvYL_OE)

- [Best Practices for (Go) gRPC Services](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_yD7YPL2oE)

- [Creating GopherJS Apps with gRPC-Web](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2HaxH7Et64) - At FOSDEM

- [justforfunc #31: gRPC Basics](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uolTUtioIrc) - JustForFunc: Programming in Go series Episode 31 covering gRPC

- [Efficient service communication with gRPC](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9SUcf3Uwlg) - Talk at microXchg 2018 Berlin

- [gRPC Java Course on Udemy](http://bit.ly/grpc-java-github) - Online Course (4 hours) that walks through several examples and implementations of gRPC using the Java Language

- [HTTP and JSON for your gRPC Services - Michael Hamrah](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmXo6tPGUdQ) - from Full Stack Fest

- [Types All the Way Down — gRPC and Go Infrastructure at Lyft](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqPTKJu2QFk) - Christopher Burnett  at Istanbul Tech Talks

- [Using gRPC for Long-lived and Streaming RPCs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naonb2XD_2Q) - Eric Anderson, Google at KubeCon North America 2018

- [Intro: gRPC-Web](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtyKEDZipsM) - Stanley Cheung & Wenbo Zhu, Google at at KubeCon North America 2018

- [gRPC Loadbalancing on Kubernetes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2znfxn_5Hg) - Presentation at KubeCon Europe 2018. [Source](https://github.com/jtattermusch/grpc-loadbalancing-kubernetes-examples).

- [Putting gRPC in Practice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KWmNw9jQ04) - Presentation on working with gRPC.

- [The Story of Why We Migrate to gRPC and How We Go About It](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMq3IpPE3TU) - Matthias Grüter, Spotify at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019

- [Authentication and Security in gRPC Microservices](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y-lzjdVEf0) - Jan Tattermusch, Google at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019

- [JustFootball’s Journey to gRPC + Linkerd in Production](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxPfa7Mp_WY) - Ben Lambert, & Kevin Lingerfelt at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019

- [gRPC load balancing and Service Mesh](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuXnfGHUZcU) - Vishal Powar, Google at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2019

- [Adopting gRPC: Overcoming Team and Technical Hurdles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNllljvhcnk) - GOTO 2019 • Adopting gRPC: Overcoming Team and Technical Hurdles • Josh Humphries

- [Moving to gRPC Java](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFBuvWVIcYQ) - Mya Pitzeruse at Indeed.com

- [Building Microservices with Go](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmD8u-IFdreyh6EUfevBcbiuCKzFk0EW_) - A series of tutorials for building microservices with Go, covers using gRPC ([source](https://github.com/nicholasjackson/building-microservices-youtube)).

- [Building a gRPC application in Ballerina](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wHFIPa1-3I&t=1s) - A Demo on how to build a gRPC application in Ballerina at gRPC Meetup





### Slides



- [gRPC Overview](http://www.slideshare.net/VarunTalwar4/grpc-overview) - An overview at gRPC: Talk at Slack by

Varun Talwar

- [gRPC Design and Implementation](https://www.slideshare.net/VarunTalwar4/grpc-design-and-implementation) - April 2016 talk at Stanford by Varun Talwar

- [gRPC - boilerplate to high-performance scalable APIs](https://www.slideshare.net/AboutYouGmbH/robert-kubis-grpc-boilerplate-to-highperformance-scalable-apis-codetalks-2015) - code.talks 2015 by Robert Kubis

- [HTTP2 and gRPC](https://www.slideshare.net/GuoJing8/http2-and-grpc) - A simple introduction about HTTP2 and gRPC by Xin Gong Chang

- [gRPC and Microservices](https://www.slideshare.net/blinkingsquirrel/grpc-and-microservices) - Overview of Google's open source microservices framework - gRPC, based on HTTP2 and protocol buffers. Presented at Golang Melbourne, June 2016 by Jonathan Gomez

- [gRPC and Microservices](https://github.com/jonog/talks/blob/master/src/grpc/grpc-presentation.md) - Golang Melbourne - June 2016 Go Hack Night by Jonathan Gomez

- [Scalable Microservices with gRPC, Kubernetes, and Containers](https://speakerdeck.com/googlecloudplatform/scalable-microservices-with-grpc-kubernetes-and-containers-devfest-ukraine) - DevFest Ukraine

- [OpenAPI and gRPC Side by-Side](https://www.slideshare.net/timburks/openapi-and-grpc-side-byside) - APIStrat Conference -

Tim Burks

- [Go+Microservices at Mercari](https://talks.godoc.org/github.com/tcnksm/talks/2017/11/gocon2017/gocon2017.slide) - Taichi Nakashima at Go Conference 2017

- [gRPC - RPC rebirth?](https://www.slideshare.net/LusBarbosa9/grpcrpc-rebirth) - Presentation about gRPC at the 23. NetPonto community meeting in Porto by Luís Barbosa





### Examples



- [gifinator](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gifinator) - A sample application demonstrating Kubernetes, gRPC, Go and cute Gophers demoed at Google GCP Next 2017

- [Text to Speech server with gRPC and Kubernetes](https://github.com/campoy/justforfunc/tree/master/12-say-grpc) - justforfunc #12

- [Multiplayer Simon Says - A Game using gRPC and Kubernetes](https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-simon-says) - Sample app with Go server and clients using Node.js (on Arduino and web), and Java (Android and CLI)

- [Go Microservices Example](https://github.com/harlow/go-micro-services) - HTTP up front, Protobufs in the rear

- [Streaming RPC's using gRPC](https://github.com/ridha/grpc-streaming-demo) - A quick demo of bi-directional streaming RPC's using grpc, Go and Python

- [gRPC Java Examples](https://github.com/saturnism/grpc-java-by-example) - A collection of useful/essential gRPC Java Examples

- [gRPC/OpenCensus Demo](https://github.com/rakyll/opencensus-grpc-demo) - Export metrics and traces from gRPC servers and clients using Java, Go and Prometheus

- [go-micro-services](https://github.com/harlow/go-micro-services) - An demonstration of Golang micro-services that expose a HTTP/JSON frontend and then leverages gRPC for inter-service communication

- [Colossus](https://github.com/lucperkins/colossus) - An example multi-language gRPC microservice architecture built by Bazel and targeting Kubernetes

- [coolstore-microservices](https://github.com/vietnam-devs/coolstore-microservices) - A containerized polyglot gRPC microservices based on .NET Core, Nodejs and more running on Istio

- [gRPC Microservices with Go and Kubernetes](https://github.com/shuza/kubernetes-go-grpc) - A sample application use gRPC in microservice and deploy in kubernetes.

- [Making a Multiplayer Game With Go and gRPC](https://mortenson.coffee/blog/making-multiplayer-game-go-and-grpc/) - gRPC game example in Go. [Source](https://github.com/mortenson/grpc-game-example).

- [Detailed examples for Go](https://github.com/lixd/grpc-go-example) - A detailed gRPC example in Go.

- [Envoy proxy as an API gateway for gRPC microservice](https://ekhabarov.com/post/envoy-as-an-api-gateway/) - A gRPC service in Go, built with Bazel and deployed into Kubernetes cluster with [Tilt](https://tilt.dev) and REST API enabled. [Source](https://github.com/ekhabarov/bazel-k8s-envoy)

- [gRPC Ballerina service Example](https://ballerina.io/learn/by-example/#grpc-service) - A collection of simple gRPC service examples written in Ballerina

- [gRPC Ballerina client Example](https://ballerina.io/learn/by-example/#grpc-client) - A collection of simple gRPC client examples written in Ballerina

- [Go gRPC features examples](https://github.com/vladimirvivien/go-grpc) - A collection of gRPC and Go examples showcasing features of the framework

- [Hello gRPC](https://github.com/feuyeux/hello-grpc) - Simple server and client examples showcasing gRPC features(including proxy and propagate, running in containers and kubernetes) with Java/Kotlin/Go/NodeJs/Python/Rust/C++/C#.

- [GCP - Online Boutique application rewritten in Ballerina](https://github.com/ballerina-guides/gcp-microservices-demo) - Online Boutique application rewritten in Ballerina





### Miscellaneous



- [gRPC with Load Balancer or Proxy or on AWS](https://gist.github.com/bojand/6a604f7e369d7c7d8c39eb77878a42c2) - Various notes on doing gRPC behind a load balancer or proxy or on AWS

- [gRPC service upgrade, versioning](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/grpc-io/LPsPg5ctQd4) - A short possibly useful discussion on gRPC service upgrade and versioning

- [Packaging Generated Code for gRPC Services](https://blog.bugsnag.com/libraries-for-grpc-services/) - An article demonstrating a strategy on how to version and package gRPC libraries

- [Migrating APIs from REST to gRPC at WePay](https://wecode.wepay.com/posts/migrating-apis-from-rest-to-grpc-at-wepay) - A blog post on migrating from REST to gRPC





## Protocol Buffers





### Documentation



- [Website](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/) - Official website and documentation

- [Third-Party Add-ons for Protocol Buffers](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/docs/third_party.md) - List of add-ons for Protocol Buffers in main github repository





### Package Managers



- [buffrs](https://github.com/helsing-ai/buffrs) – A modern package manager for protocol buffers and gRPC architectures.





### Tools



- [buf](https://buf.build) - Protobuf tool that includes linting and breaking change detection.

  Allows many types of input including directly checking remote repositories and tarballs, and has a built-in compiler as well.

- [prototools](https://github.com/sourcegraph/prototools) - Documentation generator & other tools for protobuf/gRPC.

- [protoc-gen-apidocs](https://github.com/tmc/protoc-gen-apidocs) - Documentation generator plugin for protobuf/gRPC.

- [protoc-gen-doc](https://github.com/pseudomuto/protoc-gen-doc) - Documentation generator plugin for Google Protocol Buffers

- [Protoxygen](https://github.com/lisroach/Protoxygen) - [Doxygen](http://doxygen.nl) plugin to generate documentation for protobuf/gRPC

- [openapi2proto](https://github.com/NYTimes/openapi2proto) - A tool for generating Protobuf v3 schemas and gRPC service definitions from OpenAPI specifications

- [Wireshark Protobuf Dissector](https://github.com/128technology/protobuf_dissector) - A Wireshark Lua plugin for decoding Google protobuf packets. [Relevant PR and discussion](https://github.com/google/protobuf/issues/3303).

- [protoc-gen-lint](https://github.com/ckaznocha/protoc-gen-lint) - A plug-in for Google's Protocol Buffers (protobufs) compiler to lint .proto files for style violations

- [prototool](https://github.com/uber/prototool) - Compile, lint, and format Protobuf files, and generate stubs for any lanuguage/plugin, along with Vim/IDE integration

- [protoc-gen-validate](https://github.com/lyft/protoc-gen-validate) - Protoc plugin to generate polyglot message validators

- [go-proto-validators](https://github.com/mwitkow/go-proto-validators) - Generate message validators from .proto annotations, used in `grpc_validator` Go gRPC middleware.

- [protolock](https://github.com/nilslice/protolock) - Protocol Buffer companion tool to `protoc` and `git`. Track your .proto files and prevent changes to messages and services which impact API compatibilty.

- [protoc-gen-map](https://github.com/jackskj/protoc-gen-map) - SQL data mapper framework for Protocol Buffers.

- [api-linter](https://github.com/googleapis/api-linter) - A linter for APIs defined in protocol buffers.

- [protoc-gen-struct-transformer](https://github.com/bold-commerce/protoc-gen-struct-transformer) - Transformation functions generator for Protocol Buffers.

- [pbvm](https://github.com/ekalinin/pbvm) - Protocol Buffers Version Manager

- [clang-format](https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html) - Protocol Buffers formating tool

  Can be used to format on save in editor such as [Visual studio code](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=xaver.clang-format) or [IntelliJ](https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/14004-protocol-buffer-editor).

- [intellij-protobuf-plugin](https://github.com/devkanro/intellij-protobuf-plugin) - IntelliJ-based IDEs Protobuf Language Plugin that provides Protobuf language support.

- [GenDocu](https://gendocu.com) - gRPC Documentation and SDK generator as a Service.

- [protolint](https://github.com/yoheimuta/protolint) - A pluggable linter and fixer to enforce Protocol Buffer style and conventions.



### Similar



- [gogoprotobuf](https://github.com/gogo/protobuf) - Fork of golang/protobuf with extra code generation features

- [MessagePack](http://msgpack.org/index.html) - It's like JSON, but fast and small

- [Thrift](https://thrift.apache.org/) - Thrift is an interface definition language and binary communication protocol

- [TChannel](https://github.com/uber/tchannel) - Network multiplexing and framing protocol for RPC

- [Cap’n Proto](https://capnproto.org/) - Think Protocol Buffers, except faster

- [FlatBuffers](https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/) - An efficient cross platform serialization library

- [RSocket](http://rsocket.io/) - Application protocol providing Reactive Streams semantics

- [Twirp](https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp) - A simple RPC framework with protobuf service definitions

- [Greenpack](https://github.com/glycerine/greenpack) - Serialization format similar to MessagePack, but adds field versioning and type annotation



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