Beginners Guide to gRPC in Go!

[@Tutorialedge]

Hi Folks! If you are interested, I'm currently developing a new course - building a gRPC Microservice in Go which you can find here - tutorialedge.net/courses/go-grpc-services-course/ This covers everything from project setup and layout, testing, and best practices around things like versioning.

[@nicolotafta7150]

Has been past 4 years but most well done video on the gRPC! gj

[@alpaslaneldemir6904]

Thanks for the Tutorial. A stream example would be a nice one for next. Broadcasting a gıven message to all connected clients.

[@wkdj2522]

extremely well done. i had no idea what gRPC was; now i do. thanks!

[@ericb252]

This is invaluable. This really helps so many of us. Thank you!

[@alexveeuk]

This was a very useful tutorial thank you 👌! I would be grateful if you could you show us stream examples and maybe connecting it to MongoDB with how to bind them to primitives using todos as an example would be awesome!

[@ixaran]

are you mobile developer?

[@jayeshthamke7860]

Good work!! Could you bring a tutorial in golang/context package with its real use in application? Thanks

[@Tutorialedge]

Great suggestion!

[@jordansilva15]

Thank you for the video, really usefull, there is so few quality learning material on this topic, this tutorial helped me a lot.

[@Omar-hw7zi]

Thanks, very simple example. Straight to the point!

[@GodofStories]

Great tutorial. Appreciate your video, and some of the other helpful comments

[@hanzohasashi3025]

Great video. Btw what vscode theme are you using?

[@mecamon]

Thank you so much!

[@pedroramos5715]

Thanks for this.

[@Rcls01]

Kewl. Thanks for clarifying a few things!

[@politicsmovies6422]

tq for this tutorial

[@WaldirBorbaJunior]

Amazing content. tks for sharing

[@VaibhavPatil-rx7pc]

Excellent !!!

[@grudgemudgen5488]

Excellent tutorial! 👏🏼 I look forward to more from you :-)

[@chrisreplogle6172]

Thank you for great content!

[@xtapa3271]

If I was to consume an api as a client, I assume I would just look at what the output of the api is (in api documentation e.g.), define my own chat.proto like I would define my own json model struct in rest, and then it just works the same way? And would the chat.Server be my place for dependency injections? If so, this seems so lightweight and convenient.

[@muzammilsyed2339]

Can I get your vscode settings? Theme, font family, line height everything looks very clean

[@codelucky]

REST VS GRPC VS GRAPHQL? Choose one and why?

[@neiluli8329]

Awesome !

[@bulsyt9903]

Nice video 🔥 can golang grpc use a different package between server and client?

[@HSharpknifeedge]

Thank you !

[@Csc5csc5]

I'm following along and ran into some issues: using go v1.16 in VSCode with the go helpers installed. At 10:39 I'm being told that *Message is not defined. It's my understanding that the `package chat` declaration in both the chat.go and chat.pb.go meant that no import was required. Further, at 13:25 line 21 I'm being told RegisterChatServiceServer is not declared by the chat package. The package is definitely imported, as autocomplete suggested the method. Is there something happening due to differing versions of Go between the video here and what I'm using, or do I need to look for issues elsewhere?

[@Csc5csc5]

Figured out half of it - chat.proto requires a line: `option go_package = ".;chat";` to be included. Still stuck on server.go ln 21: passing &s into RegisterChatServiceServer, but I'm sure I'll figure it out.

[@sreerampanigrahi]

@@Csc5csc5 Hey! I've found the fix and putting it here so that it helps someone in future. Basically we need to embed the field. i.e. Add this part in the chat.go file and it should work fine type Server struct { ChatServiceServer }

[@nazarpysko]

Try compiling the proto file with this command too: protoc --go-grpc_out=./ chat.proto It generates another pb file and it contains all the functions shown on the video. There are few other changes that must be made. Search for my comment for more details.

[@umeshsunnapu]

very helpful. just one edit compared to when this is recorded vs current releases of protoc, proto-gen-go-grpc etc. I believe executing protoc command, did not add package name in chat.pb.go and instead had it like ___. Change that to "chat"

[@0xcoder542]

@TutorialEdge - Thank you for creating such a nice tutorial video about GRPC. I found one issue while following the video. The "option go_package" missing in the Proto file? Please advise

[@sanjanaprakash1648]

Thank you for the video, very useful. One doubt, server.go and client.go both have main functions and they are in the same package. How does this work? Sorry I'm a newbie to Golang, so don't know much. It'll be great if anyone could clear the doubt.

[@georgelza]

if you execute go run . then you would have a problem, but as you're executing go run server.go it only looks internal to that file, it's not aware of the main package in client.go

[@anilchaudhry804]

can you please come up with some real world microservice using golang? It helps a lot especially for young developers. Lets build from scratch??

[@Tutorialedge]

This is a great idea and something I will be doing on my site in the form of a course! I've got a couple of real-world examples I want to solve myself, so building courses around these adventures would be great :)

[@amirhasanbasic2193]

Would we implement this Sayhello function in the same package chat in produciton, because it seems reasonable that we would implement it in other package so we "hide implementation" from client, this way client could just call the function without having to use RPC... correct me if i'm wrong

[@srikantprasad6711]

Thanks for this video. Sir if you want to create a tutorial. Please create tutorial on gomobile. How to create mobile app in golang.

[@pedroramos5715]

I just couldn't generate protoc code without stating explicitly the option "go_package" in my .proto file

[@georgelza]

I had the same, it seems the standards have changed, and this is now required, similar to the go.mod that is now compulsory

[@PrashantShekher]

Great, Do you have any idea run the same code with docker container?

[@venil82]

would you store generated pb.go file in git or exclude it? how do you share a contract between server and client, and keep them in sync ?

[@Tutorialedge]

One approach I've seen used in production environments is to have a monorepo that contains all of your compiled files in every language that teams in your company develop in. You then follow appropriate versioning in order to ensure that any breaking changes are done under new versions and don't break existing applications using these compiled files. Let me know if this helps! I'm actually planning on doing a more comprehensive series in the near future!

[@albinbackstrom9297]

I could not get the protoc command work from this video. Had to run it like this: protoc -I. --go_out=. --go-grpc_out=require_unimplemented_servers=false:. chat.proto and also add this to the .proto file option go_package = "./chat";

[@gdgo6166]

this was helpful! you should be pinned so other people can be unblocked faster

[@andrewklein3349]

banger comment, saved me tearing my hair out

[@mystica7284]

you are lifesaver dude!! thanks

[@enjili6062]

When I followed, protoc --go_out=. *.proto, I got error below. How should I fix this? protoc-gen-go: unable to determine Go import path for "chat.proto" Please specify either: • a "go_package" option in the .proto source file, or • a "M" argument on the command line.

[@enjili6062]

Oh, simply add `option go_package = "example.com/dummy"` would work

[@otabek7751]

@@enjili6062 ive spent like 5 hrs to solve this...(

[@empaguia]

oh hi' @@enjili6062 where to add this?

[@pinkmmaggit1448]

You'd also want to use this URL instead of his for "go mod init" and so on, starting at 10:48

[@vtvvnha2230]

thank you

[@DavidAlsh]

So the Go protoc plugin will always generate Go service interface method definitions with context.Context as the first argument?

[@abbyck]

Thanks

[@kirayamato6128]

im new to go. what is the meaning of %v? ty in advance

[@nikta456]

Getting a `Missing 'go_package' option in "chat.proto` after running a `protoc --go_out=plugins=grpc:chat chat.proto` (Win 10). Any suggestions?

[@nikta456]

Was able to fix it by adding `option go_package = "github.com/monkrus/grpc-from0;grpc_from0";` line. Walkthrough of this great tutorial is here github.com/monkrus/grpc-from0

[@seoch2064]

When generating chat.pb.go, my file is different from the one the video shows. For instance, I don't have the Marshall and Unmarshall functions, what could be causing this?

[@rinosukmandityo6448]

I think that because different version of protoc or protoc-gen-go. And that should not cause a problem IMO.

[@vtvvnha2230]

how to use grpc with envoy proxy

[@Tutorialedge]

That was just an example, on having a look, there is an excellent go package called grpc-gateway which can act as a proxy for HTTP requests through to your gRPC service - github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway

[@raco95]

@@Tutorialedge grpcwebproxy by improbable is a lot easier to use than envoy, not sure about the one you linked but it's worth giving a shot. no extra set up, just list the port of your grpc server and you're good to go github.com/improbable-eng/grpc-web/tree/master/go/grpcwebproxy

[@tnvmadhav2442]

👏🏻

[@prasannadiwadkar8153]

chat.pb.go. How should i import this in another go file ?

[@milakay]

Add the following to your import statement in client.go and server.go: "./chat"

[@codelucky]

gRPC vs GraphQL ? With Go.

[@Tutorialedge]

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm not sure I could do a direct comparison on these two technologies though as they approach 2 different problem domains. In fact, I believe they could be used together, where a GraphQL application talks to a gRPC server in order to retrieve some of the data!

[@codelucky]

@@Tutorialedge There are not many courses available on gRPC with Go. I wonder why? Is it because of its low popularity or due to any technical reason? Or is it difficult to implement than GraphQL?

[@Zapanath]

LucKie they have different use cases...

[@jayeshthamke7860]

@@codelucky Though there are less tutorial doesn't mean gRPC is less popular or has no usecase. In Kubernetes, they use gRPC to communicate and data transfer within cluster

[@BrackenDawson]

context has been in the standard library for a long time..

[@AndiSyafrianda]

jejak gans

[@gabrielmsampson]

What theme is this?

[@Suriprofz]

grpc is undefined

[@abdulrahmanmohmmd1029]

For those who having error in the new version with generation thr grpc files Run protoc -proto_path=. *.proto -go_out=. -go-grpc_out=.

[@ExiNani]

help a lot

[@palashbhasme3900]

it gives main redeclared in error

[@NancyLopez-g8n]

Sheila Knoll

[@creddym1]

super youtube why beacuse he put in youtube vidio thanks all youtube

[@benwatson9633]

thank you 2x speed

[@Tutorialedge]

Most people struggle with my Scottish accent so I do find myself slowing down when recording 😂

[@hackaholic01]

sorry Man, but I have to say grpc are shiny and fancy words, TCP is simple and more efficient than grpc

[@Tutorialedge]

gRPC is typically built on-top of TCP and is one of the highest performance methods of transportation available due to the fact you are sending far smaller amounts of information (typically) than say JSON over HTTP. In terms of simplicity, I’d 100% agree with the statement that JSON over HTTP wins every day of the week. I’ve seen both sides of the coin and definitely lean more towards JSON over HTTP for all applications that don’t demand the absolute highest of performance.

[@sammyj29]

My chat.pb.go doesn't have the RegisterChatServiceServer function for some reason. Am I doing something wrong?

[@RalphTruman-e4s]

6537 Fred Passage

[@creddym1]

This was a very useful tutorial thank you 👌! I would be grateful if you could you show us stream examples and maybe connecting it to MongoDB with how to bind them to primitives using todos as an example would be awesome!