How to use grpc-web without envoy

Question

I am playing with grpc & grpc-web. I was able to run a simple grpc server and grpc-web applications. However I feel like the setup requires too many dependencies web-server, grpc-server and envoy proxy.

Is anyone successfully using grpc-web for production? Do we need all the dependencies including envoy?

Apelles

You need something that are able to understand and translate the grpc-web requests to your grpc server. The current default proxy which supports this out of the box is Envoy. – Bulbar

Answer 1

We are using the grpc web proxy from improbable. So what you need is :

1. Generated js client + grpc web runtime module
2. Grpc web proxy
3. Your implementation of grpc services Nothing special...

Surrealism

I already follow that. My question is - do we need envoy? Your application is in production? Can you share the link please? just curious. – Apelles

You need some grpc web proxy. No way to call grpc server directly from the browser (meanwhile ) – Surrealism

Answer 2

Yes, we need some kind of proxy, but instead of Envoy proxy you can use build in solutions like grpcweb.

Salad