gRPC-Web Dev Tools

Now supports dark mode.

Installation

Chrome

Via the Chrome Web Store (recommended)

or

1. build it with make build
2. open the Extension Management page by navigating to chrome://extensions.
3. enable Developer Mode by clicking the toggle switch next to "Developer mode".
4. Click the LOAD UNPACKED button and select the extension ./build directory.

Firefox

Via Firefox Browser Add-Ons (recommended)

or

1. build and package with make package
2. enter about:debugging in the URL bar of Firefox
3. click This Firefox > Load Temporary Add-on...
4. select the grpc-web-devtools.zip extention file

Usage

const enableDevTools = window.__GRPCWEB_DEVTOOLS__ || (() => {});
const client = new EchoServiceClient('http://myapi.com');
enableDevTools([
  client,
]);

NOTE: Requires that your generated client(s) use protoc-gen-grpc-web >= 1.0.4

Example

The example uses docker-compose to start a simple gRPC server, JavaScript client and the Envoy proxy for gRPC-Web:

make example-up

Example will be running on http://localhost:8080

To stop the example:

make example-down