Reading

1. — Using GRPC with TLS, Golang and React (No Envoy)
2. — Embedding a React application in a Golang binary
3. — gRPC Interceptors
4. — Streaming data with gRPC

Updates

Percy Bolmér made a lovely article about streaming gRPC to a React application without envoy. I found his repository, and dusted it off to get it (mostly) working.

cd webapp/hwmonitor
npm run build
cd ../..
go run main.go

One problem remains that when I run go run main.go in this root directory, the local react application does not load at http://localhost:8383.

However, if in another terminal I do this:

cd webapp/hwmonitor
npm start

Then in Firefox I can get localhost:3000 to see the desired results. In Chrome, it complains about CORS because it's talking to port 8383 from port 3000, which you can relax with CORS extensions.

Stuff I did to make it up to date

export GOBIN=~/go/bin
go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@latest
go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@latest

brew install protobuf
brew install protoc-gen-js
brew install protoc-gen-grpc-web
cd proto
protoc service.proto --js_out=import_style=commonjs,binary:. --grpc-web_out=import_style=commonjs,mode=grpcwebtext:. --go-grpc_out=. --go_out=.
cp *.js ../webapp/hwmonitor/src/proto
cd ..

I also had to update all the Go libraries. gRPC gets real argy-bargy if the versions don't match the protoc plugins.