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TLDR

A community-maintained curated list of gRPC tools, libraries, tutorials, and resources organized by programming language and use case.

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    Official resources
      Documentation
      Language libraries
    CLI tools
      Request clients
      Load testers
    GUI clients
      API testing
      Debugging
    Protocol Buffers
      Code generators
      Schema tools
    Languages covered
      Go Node Java
      Python Rust Swift
    Learning resources
      Tutorials
      Conference talks
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Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Find a gRPC client library for your preferred programming language such as Go, Python, or Rust

USE CASE 2

Discover command-line and GUI tools for sending test requests to a gRPC service

USE CASE 3

Locate load testing tools to measure how a gRPC service handles heavy traffic

USE CASE 4

Find tutorials and conference talks to get up to speed on gRPC concepts

Tech stack

gRPCProtocol Buffers

Getting it running

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No installation needed, this is a reference list of links, not runnable code.

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In plain English

Awesome gRPC is a community-maintained list of tools, libraries, tutorials, and other resources related to gRPC. gRPC is a system developed by Google for allowing software components, often running on different machines, to call each other's functions over a network as if they were local. It is commonly used in backend systems where services need to communicate efficiently. The list is organized into sections covering documentation, official libraries across many programming languages, and third-party tools grouped by purpose. The tools section includes command-line clients for sending gRPC requests, graphical clients that work like API testing tools, and load testing utilities for measuring how a gRPC service handles heavy traffic. There is also a section on Protocol Buffers, which is the data format that gRPC uses to define what messages look like and to generate code in various languages. Language-specific sections collect community libraries and extensions for Go, Node.js, Java, Python, C#, Rust, Swift, Kotlin, and a number of other programming languages. This makes the list useful for developers working in any common language who want to find gRPC tooling for that environment. The resources section links to tutorials, conference talks on video, slide decks, and example projects. There is also a section listing similar or related projects for people exploring alternatives. This is a link repository rather than a software project. It contains no runnable code. Its value is as a starting point for anyone trying to understand what gRPC tools exist or find a specific kind of gRPC library for a given programming language or task. The full README is longer than what was shown.

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Prompt 1
I'm building a gRPC service in Python. Using the awesome-grpc list, which third-party libraries should I consider for client-side load balancing and retries?
Prompt 2
I need a GUI tool similar to Postman but for gRPC. What does the grpc-ecosystem/awesome-grpc list recommend for graphical gRPC clients?
Prompt 3
I want to write integration tests for my gRPC API. What load testing tools does awesome-grpc list, and how do I pick between them?
Prompt 4
My team is evaluating gRPC vs REST. Point me to the best introductory talks and tutorials in the awesome-grpc resource list.
Prompt 5
I'm building in Rust and need a gRPC server library. What does awesome-grpc recommend for the Rust ecosystem?
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