4.2 KiB
Pure JavaScript gRPC Client
Installation
Node 12 is recommended. The exact set of compatible Node versions can be found in the engines
field of the package.json
file.
npm install @grpc/grpc-js
Documentation
Documentation specifically for the @grpc/grpc-js
package is currently not available. However, documentation is available for the grpc
package, and the two packages contain mostly the same interface. There are a few notable differences, however, and these differences are noted in the "Migrating from grpc" section below.
Features
- Clients
- Automatic reconnection
- Servers
- Streaming
- Metadata
- Partial compression support: clients can compress and decompress messages, and servers can decompress request messages
- Pick first and round robin load balancing policies
- Client Interceptors
- Connection Keepalives
- HTTP Connect support (proxies)
If you need a feature from the grpc
package that is not provided by the @grpc/grpc-js
, please file a feature request with that information.
This library does not directly handle .proto
files. To use .proto
files with this library we recommend using the @grpc/proto-loader
package.
Migrating from grpc
@grpc/grpc-js
is almost a drop-in replacement for grpc
, but you may need to make a few code changes to use it:
- If you are currently loading
.proto
files usinggrpc.load
, that function is not available in this library. You should instead load your.proto
files using@grpc/proto-loader
and load the resulting package definition objects into@grpc/grpc-js
usinggrpc.loadPackageDefinition
. - If you are currently loading packages generated by
grpc-tools
, you should instead generate your files using thegenerate_package_definition
option ingrpc-tools
, then load the object exported by the generated file into@grpc/grpc-js
usinggrpc.loadPackageDefinition
. - If you have a server and you are using
Server#bind
to bind ports, you will need to useServer#bindAsync
instead. - If you are using any channel options supported in
grpc
but not supported in@grpc/grpc-js
, you may need to adjust your code to handle the different behavior. Refer to the list of supported options below. - Refer to the detailed package comparison for more details on the differences between
grpc
and@grpc/grpc-js
.
Supported Channel Options
Many channel arguments supported in grpc
are not supported in @grpc/grpc-js
. The channel arguments supported by @grpc/grpc-js
are:
grpc.ssl_target_name_override
grpc.primary_user_agent
grpc.secondary_user_agent
grpc.default_authority
grpc.keepalive_time_ms
grpc.keepalive_timeout_ms
grpc.keepalive_permit_without_calls
grpc.service_config
grpc.max_concurrent_streams
grpc.initial_reconnect_backoff_ms
grpc.max_reconnect_backoff_ms
grpc.use_local_subchannel_pool
grpc.max_send_message_length
grpc.max_receive_message_length
grpc.enable_http_proxy
grpc.default_compression_algorithm
grpc.enable_channelz
grpc.dns_min_time_between_resolutions_ms
grpc.enable_retries
grpc.per_rpc_retry_buffer_size
grpc.retry_buffer_size
grpc.service_config_disable_resolution
grpc.client_idle_timeout_ms
grpc-node.max_session_memory
grpc-node.tls_enable_trace
channelOverride
channelFactoryOverride
Some Notes on API Guarantees
The public API of this library follows semantic versioning, with some caveats:
- Some methods are prefixed with an underscore. These methods are internal and should not be considered part of the public API.
- The class
Call
is only exposed due to limitations of TypeScript. It should not be considered part of the public API. - In general, any API that is exposed by this library but is not exposed by the
grpc
library is likely an error and should not be considered part of the public API. - The
grpc.experimental
namespace contains APIs that have not stabilized. Any API in that namespace may break in any minor version update.