grpc-tools

This package distributes the Protocol Buffers compiler protoc along with the
plugin for generating client and service objects for use with the Node gRPC
libraries.

Usage

This library exports the grpc_tools_node_protoc executable, which accepts all
of the same arguments as protoc itself. For use with Node, you most likely
want to use CommonJS-style imports. An example of generating code this way can
be found in this guide.
The grpc_tools_node_protoc automatically includes the Node gRPC plugin, so
it also accepts the --grpc_out=[option:]path argument. The option can be
one of the following:

- grpc_js: Generates code with require('@grpc/grpc-js') instead of
require('grpc')
- generate_package_definition: Generates code that does not require any
gRPC library, and instead generates PackageDefinition objects that can
be passed to the loadPackageDefinition function provided by both the
grpc and @grpc/grpc-js libraries.
- omit_serialize_instanceof: Omit the instanceof check for messages in
client code. This is useful when the message was renamed or is from a
different package, and serialization would fail with
Expected argument of type ….