protobuf-es

I'm asking for a quick, well, scream check, because the ecosystem concerns me. From what I've seen, protobuf-es is the clear winner in terms of API and general usability. I also burnt two full days resolving an off-by-typically-1 parsing error: https://github.com/bufbuild/protobuf-es/pull/1183, which impacted production significantly. If that implementation is the most compliant as it claims, well, I have concerns. This recent experience is consistent with my past experience - that JS is the oddball of the ecosystem. I'm just hoping it doesn't have to be.

Ah you should check out https://github.com/bufbuild/protobuf-es which feels great so far. Then there's connect by the same buf people but it has a grpc-web option https://connect.build/docs/web/getting-started/. The amount of code generated is also tiny, which I love.

Not sure if it is a magic bullet, but it was definitely written by TypeScript developers, for TypeScript developers. The generated TypeScript code is already pretty minimal because all serialization ops are implemented with reflection instead of generated code (which is only marginally slower than generated code in JS). But you can also switch to generating JavaScript + TypeScript declaration files, which is truly minimal: JavaScript is an entire dynamic language, so we actually only generated a small snippet of metadata in the .js output, and create a class at run time with a function call. The generated typings (.d.ts) give you type safety, autocompletion in the IDE, and so on. You can see the output here: https://github.com/bufbuild/protobuf-es/blob/main/packages/p...

Probably not - we wrote it alongside connect-web, so it also launched very recently :) We do think it's the best option for protobuf code generation in TypeScript, though. It comes from quite a few years of experience with proto & TS: the primary author is also the author and maintainer of protobuf-ts, and we had the author of ts-proto review it and give us a thumbs-up before launch. There _could_ be Bazel rules for it - we certainly write enough other Bazel integrations. Mind filing an issue on https://github.com/bufbuild/protobuf-es?

https://github.com/bufbuild/protobuf-es/blob/main/docs/gener... And there's also this which is by the same author but came before it: https://github.com/timostamm/protobuf-ts The latter has code-generation for services and has various transport packages for twirp, grpc, and grpc-web.