Awesome gRPC

A curated list of useful resources for gRPC

Contents

• Documentation
• Community
• Official Libraries and Tools
• Tools
  • CLI
  • GUI
  • Testing
  • Other
• Language-Specific
  • Go
  • Node.js
  • Java
  • Ruby
  • Python
  • C#
  • Rust
  • Haskell
  • Erlang
  • Elixir
  • Elm
  • TypeScript
  • Scala
  • Dart
  • Kotlin
  • Perl
  • C++
  • Ballerina
• Resources
  • Tutorials
  • Videos
  • Slides
  • Examples
  • Miscellaneous
• Protocol Buffers
  • Documentation
  • Package Managers
  • Tools
• Similar

Documentation

• Website - Official documentation, libraries, resources, samples and FAQ
• Technical documentation - Collection of useful technical documentation
• gRPC status codes - Status codes and their use in gRPC
• gRPC status code mapping - HTTP to gRPC Status Code Mapping
• grpc-errors - Code examples in each language on how to return and handle error statuses.
• API Design Guide - Google Cloud API Design Guide useful for gRPC API design insights

Community

• Community links - Mailing list, Gitter, Twitter, Reddit

Official Libraries and Tools

• gRPC Core - C, C++, Ruby, Node.js, Python, PHP, C#, Objective-C
• gRPC Java - The Java gRPC implementation. HTTP/2 based RPC
• gRPC Kotlin - The Kotlin gRPC implementation. Based on gRPC Java
• gRPC Node.js - gRPC for Node.js
• gRPC Go - The Go language implementation of gRPC. HTTP/2 based RPC
• gRPC Swift - The Swift language implementation of gRPC
• gRPC Dart - The Dart language implementation of gRPC
• gRPC C# - The C# language implementation of gRPC
• gRPC Web - gRPC for Web Clients
• gRPC Ecosystem - gRPC Ecosystem that complements gRPC
• gRPC contrib - Known useful contributions around github
• grpc_cli - gRPC CLI tool

Tools

CLI

• polyglot - A gRPC command line client written in Java
• grpcc - Node.js grpc command-line client
• gcall - Simple Node.js gRPC command line interface
• Evans - more expressive universal gRPC (CLI) client
• grpcurl - Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers
• httpyac - a command line client for executing integration tests for all kinds of requests (gRPC, HTTP, MQTT, Websocket).
• protodot - Transforming your .proto files into .dot files (and .svg, .png if you happen to have graphviz installed)
• grpc-client-cli - interactive gRPC client
• proto2asciidoc - Generate AsciiDoc documentation from a .proto file
• proto-to-postman - Create postman API import collection from .proto files
• gWhisper - Client with interactive tab-completion (uses reflection) and human readable format
• grpcdebug - Debugs serving gRPC applications with tools like channel trace info, xDS config dump, and health checking
• sylk - A gRPC framework for building projects in Python, Typescript / NodeJS and Go from a simple CLI and powerful Beta UI platform
• grpcmd - A simple, easy-to-use, and developer-friendly CLI tool for gRPC.

GUI

• Postman - Create, test, and debug gRPC services directly from Postman
• letmegrpc - Generate a web form gui from a grpc specification
• omgRPC (Deprecated) - A GUI client for interacting with gRPC services, similar to what Postman is for REST APIs
• 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 (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 - Like Postman, but for gRPC. web based GUI Client for gRPC, extremely easy to use.
• vscode-httpyac - A VSCode extension which supports sending all kinds of requests (gRPC, HTTP, MQTT, Websocket)
• Milkman - Extensible alternative to Postman for crafting all kinds of requests, not only for gRPC, also http, sql etc.
• MuninRPC - Protobuf request and response testing application under the gRPC system.
• 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) - A browser GUI Making sure your outbound 🗣️ ‘yodelay’ returns the ‘IiiOoo’ 📣 that you expect.
• 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 - A gRPC and gRPC-web client supporting environments, templating, authentication schemes and file based syncing.
• Plumber - Another one GUI for GRPC requests (reflection only)
• Fint - Create, run, manage performance tests and functional tests cases for gRPC service in a single (commercial) tool
• Protocall - A browser-based gRPC & protobuf API client. Integrates with Github and automatically resolves all proto imports with no manual configuration.
• Grip - Native macOS client for interacting with gRPC services
• ezy - 🔥 Fully-featured GUI client for gRPC/gRPC-Web.
• Warthog - A cross platform gRPC client. Input generation for all types, including nested and looped messages. Saving requests and servers.
• ptg - GUI gRPC client, it is also a performance testing tool.

Testing

• ghz - Simple gRPC benchmarking and load testing tool inspired by hey and grpcurl.
• gatling-grpc - A Gatling stress test plugin for gRPC.
• karate-grpc - Example of using Karate to integrate and test gRPC.
• strest-grpc - A load tester for stress testing grpc intermediaries.
• hazana - A Go package for creating load test tooling. Supports gRPC.
• fortio - A microservices (http, grpc) load testing library and tool from Istio project.
• grpc-swagger - Debugging gRPC application with swagger-ui.
• grpc-tools - A suite of gRPC debugging tools. Like Fiddler/Charles but for gRPC.
• jmeter-grpc-plugin - A plugin supports load test gRPC service with Jmeter.
• camouflage - Camouflage is a backend mocking tool for HTTP, gRPC and Websockets protocols.
• Mediator - Cross-platform GUI gRPC debugging proxy like charles but design for gRPC.
• grpc_bench - A suite of gRPC benchmarks for different technologies.
• grpcdump - Tool for capture and decode GRPC messages from ethernet traffic only for Linux
• nosymouse - Saas tool to functional, perfomance and secure testing gRPC
• Step CI - Open-Source API Testing and Monitoring (now with gRPC support!)
• Microcks - A Cloud Native Computing Sandbox project 🚀 dedicated to API Mocking and Testing (gRPC supported)

Other

• kafka-pixy - gRPC/REST proxy for Kafka
• grpc-proxy - gRPC reverse proxy with the goal of making it easy to expose gRPC services over the internet
• ratelimit - Go/gRPC service designed to enable generic rate limit scenarios from different types of applications
• ProfaneDB - A Protocol Buffers database with gRPC API, built in C++ on top of RocksDB
• danby - A grpc proxy for the browser
• docker-protoc - Dockerized protoc, grpc-gateway, and grpc_cli commands bundled with Google API libraries
• grpc-json-proxy - A proxy which allows existing tools like Postman or curl to interact with gRPC servers
• protoc-gen-gotemplate - Generic generator based on golang's template system
• grpc-http-proxy - A reverse proxy server which translate JSON HTTP requests to gRPC calls based on protoreflect
• grpc-mate - A dynamic proxy server that translates JSON HTTP requests into gRPC calls
• jawlb - An unsophisticated grpclb load balancer implementation for Kubernetes and gRPC
• protoc-gen-hbs - Fast and easy protobuf generation with handlebars and some helpers
• grpcson - An easy to use proxy which translates JSON HTTP requests to gRPC calls with web ui
• rk-grpc - Middleware and bootstrapper library for gRPC with logging, metrics, auth, tracing etc.
• PropaneDB - A Protocol Buffers database with gRPC API and Golang driver.
• APISIX - An api gateway that supports gRPC, HTTP(s) to gRPC and gRPC web request proxying.
• 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 - A collection of tools for pentesting gRPC-Web, including a Burp Suite extension for manipulating gRPC-Web payloads.

Language-Specific

Go

• go-GRPC Micro - Micro based gRPC framework for microservices
• go-kit gRPC - Go Kit with gRPC as transport
• gRPC over NATS - nRPC is an RPC framework like gRPC, but for NATS.
• grpc-web - gRPC Web implementation for Golang and TypeScript
• grpc-web-devtools - Chrome Browser extension to aid gRPC-Web development
• rpcx - A RPC service framework based on net/rpc like alibaba Dubbo and weibo Motan
• grpclb - External Load Balancing Service solution for gRPC written in Go
• grpc-proxy - gRPC proxy is a Go reverse proxy that allows for rich routing of gRPC calls with minimum overhead
• go-microservice-helpers - A collection of handy snippets that simplify creation of gRPC servers and clients
• lile - Easily create gRPC services in Go
• proteus - Generate .proto files from Go source code
• protoc-gen-cobra - Command line tool generator for Go gRPC
• gRPC over WebSocket - connect to a gRPC Server behind a firewall by using a pre-established WebSocket connection
• yarpc - A message passing platform for Go, including support for gRPC