Connect: A Better gRPC
Use Connect to build simple, stable, browser and gRPC-compatible APIs.
Buf is the toolchain for Protobuf, gRPC, and ConnectRPC - lint and generate code with the Buf CLI, publish and govern schemas on the Buf Schema Registry.
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Use Connect to build simple, stable, browser and gRPC-compatible APIs.
Use connect-web to generate compact, idiomatic TypeScript clients for your Protobuf APIs.
An idiomatic Protocol Buffers library for TypeScript and JavaScript is now available.
A comprehensive definition of the language, to empower a vibrant Protobuf ecosystem.
Buf is proud to announce the first fully-featured, spec-compliant LSP server for Protobuf. The Language Server Protocol is the standard API for integrating language support into your favorite IDE or text editor, such as VSCode, IntelliJ, or Neovim. An LSP server provides the smarts that power go to definition, code…
The industry has embraced statically typed languages, but API design remains twenty years in the past. Schema driven development presents an opportunity to pull API design into the present.
We're announcing protobuf-py, a complete, 100% conformant Protobuf runtime for Python that feels like Python and matches the performance of Google's C engine on real workloads.