grpc/grpc-node

Features

• gRPC Service Implementations - Provides a high-performance framework for implementing and hosting gRPC services in Node.js.
• Distributed Service Connectivity - Manages distributed network traffic using load balancing, SSL/TLS encryption, and automatic connection recovery.
• Microservices Communications - Connects distributed services using efficient request-response and streaming data exchange based on standardized schemas.
• gRPC Client Implementations - Provides a full gRPC client implementation for making remote procedure calls with support for reconnection and load balancing.
• Load Balancers - Distributes requests across multiple backend endpoints to ensure high availability and optimal resource utilization.
• Service Communication Libraries - Provides a comprehensive toolkit for managing network connections, serialization, and routing between distributed services.
• gRPC Server Implementations - Provides the core server implementation to host gRPC services and respond to remote procedure calls.
• gRPC and HTTP TLS Securings - Secures communication between clients and servers using SSL/TLS encryption with configurable certificates and keys.
• Protobuf Stub Generators - Generates type-safe client and server stubs from Protocol Buffer interface definitions.
• Node.js Microservices Frameworks - Implements a dedicated framework for building microservices architectures using the Node.js runtime and gRPC.
• Protocol Buffer Implementations - Implements the Protocol Buffers serialization format for encoding, decoding, and defining structured data.
• HTTP/2 Transport Layers - Utilizes HTTP/2 binary framing and multiplexing as the transport layer for high-performance remote calls.
• Definition Loading - Implements utilities to parse protobuf definition files to prepare service and message structures for RPC use.
• Request Hedging - Implements request retries and hedging strategies to improve reliability and reduce tail latency.
• gRPC Service Generators - Ships a toolchain to compile protocol buffer files into language-specific client and service objects.
• Bi-directional Streaming RPC - Supports continuous bi-directional data streaming between clients and servers for real-time communication.
• Connection Keepalives - Maintains active network connections and detects dead peers through periodic heartbeat pings.
• Automatic Connection Recovery - Handles automatic reconnection and monitors channel state to maintain a stable link between gRPC endpoints.
• Data Compression - Reduces network bandwidth usage by compressing and decompressing messages transmitted between gRPC peers.
• Dynamic Service Discovery - Enables dynamic updating of available service endpoints through integration with centralized management planes.
• Reflection Services - Allows clients to programmatically discover available services and methods from a running server without schema files.
• Remote Call Cancellation - Allows aborting pending remote procedure calls to conserve system resources on both client and server.
• RPC Data Streaming - Implements asynchronous bi-directional data streams between clients and servers for continuous information exchange.
• Request Deadlines - Sets maximum time limits for requests and automatically terminates calls that exceed the deadline.
• Server Health Checks - Implements a standardized health checking service that allows external monitors to verify server availability and readiness.
• Core Libraries - Node.js implementation for gRPC services.
• RPC Frameworks - gRPC client implementation for Node.js.

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