I’ve had my fair share of dealing with proto files in go (and to some extent JS), so I thought I’d share some stuff I’ve learnt the hard way by working with proto files. Protoc include paths The protoc include paths can be pretty confusing, so I’ll give a...
Putting it all together As we touched upon earlier, we generate a package from the generated JS (meta, right?), which can be served from the server. We’ll create a new file, main.go, in which we can spin up a server, serve the frontend and the gRPC backend. Much of the logi...
Last few months I’ve been using Go to write quite a lot of tools. In this post I intent to show not why I chose Go over others, but how I architect those tools, what libraries I use and what kind of automation I have in place. Libraries I’m sure some folks will preffe...
Implement the client GopherJS can be used in a couple of different ways, and there’s a couple of different bindings to many popular JavaScript frameworks. The GopherJS wiki has some great resources. I tried a couple of different ones and ended up using the VueJS bindings be...
Implement the server I like to start by creating a struct and write a simple definition that’ll immediately fail to compile. package server import ( "github.com/johanbrandhorst/gopherjs-grpc-websocket/protos/server" ) type Server struct{} var _ server.MyServerServer...
Create the protobuf interface We’ll start by creating a folder for the package we want to create. Lets call it server. Next we type up a .proto file to define the interface between the server and the client. We’ll have to include some extra proto annotations in order...
I’ve been using gRPC and Go a lot in the last year. At Cognitive Logic every one of our backend services is implemented with Go and gRPC, and it enables us to abstract away most of the complexities of networked micro services and keep interfaces typed and well defined using...
Go 1.8 gives us a new tool for creating shared libraries, called plugins! This new plugin buildmode is currently only supported on Linux. But what if we build plugin with data in binary format inside? So we can ship only one .so file.
Monorepo - is a monolithic code repository which can contain different services (or whatever you want to call them), CLI, libraries, etc.