gRPC-Web Dev Tools

Installation

Chrome

Via the Chrome Web Store (recommended)

or

1. build it with make build
2. open the Extension Management page by navigating to chrome://extensions.
3. enable Developer Mode by clicking the toggle switch next to "Developer mode".
4. Click the LOAD UNPACKED button and select the extension ./build directory.

Usage

const enableDevTools = window.__GRPCWEB_DEVTOOLS__ || (() => {});
const client = new EchoServiceClient('http://myapi.com');
enableDevTools([
  client,
]);

NOTE: Requires that your generated client(s) use protoc-gen-grpc-web >= 1.0.4

Example

The example uses docker-compose to start a simple gRPC server, JavaScript client and the Envoy proxy for gRPC-Web:

make example-up

Example will be running on http://localhost:8080

To stop the example:

make example-down