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10. The gRPC-web Specification

Anthony Giretti1  
(1)
La Salle, QC, Canada
 
We have seen together a lot things that we can do with gRPC. However, as explained in Chapter 3, gRPC is not fully supported by browsers because it relies on HTTP/2. Fortunately, a browser-compatible version of gRPC has emerged: gRPC-web. In this chapter, you will learn

  • The history and the specification of gRPC-web

  • The gRPC-web JavaScript libraries

  • gRPC-web versus REST APIs

History and Specification of gRPC-web

History of gRPC-web

As you already know, gRPC and Protobufs resulted from an open source project ...

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