gRPC – An RPC library and framework

gRPC is a modern, open source, high-performance remote procedure call (RPC) framework that can run anywhere. gRPC enables client and server applications to communicate transparently, and simplifies the building of connected systems.

To start using gRPC

To maximize usability, gRPC supports the standard method for adding dependencies to a user‘s chosen language (if there is one). In most languages, the gRPC runtime comes as a package available in a user’s language package manager.

For instructions on how to use the language-specific gRPC runtime for a project, please refer to these documents

C++: follow the instructions under the src/cpp directory
C#/.NET: NuGet packages Grpc.Net.Client, Grpc.AspNetCore.Server
Dart: pub package grpc
Go: go get google.golang.org/grpc
Java: Use JARs from Maven Central Repository
Kotlin: Use JARs from Maven Central Repository
Node: npm install @grpc/grpc-js
Objective-C: Add gRPC-ProtoRPC dependency to podspec
PHP: pecl install grpc
Python: pip install grpcio
Ruby: gem install grpc
WebJS: follow the grpc-web instructions

Per-language quickstart guides and tutorials can be found in the documentation section on the grpc.io website. Code examples are available in the examples directory.

Precompiled bleeding-edge package builds of gRPC master branch's HEAD are uploaded daily to packages.grpc.io.

To start developing gRPC

Contributions are welcome!

Please read How to contribute which will guide you through the entire workflow of how to build the source code, how to run the tests, and how to contribute changes to the gRPC codebase. For detailed C++ build instructions, see Building from source. The “How to contribute” document also contains info on how the contribution process works and contains best practices for creating contributions.

Troubleshooting

Sometimes things go wrong. Please check out the Troubleshooting guide if you are experiencing issues with gRPC.

Performance

See the Performance dashboard for performance numbers of master branch daily builds.

Concepts

See gRPC Concepts

About This Repository

This repository contains source code for gRPC libraries implemented in multiple languages written on top of a shared C++ core library src/core.

Libraries in different languages may be in various states of development. We are seeking contributions for all of these libraries:

Language	Source
Shared C++ [core library]	src/core
C++	src/cpp
Ruby	src/ruby
Python	src/python
PHP	src/php
C# (core library based)	src/csharp
Objective-C	src/objective-c

Language	Source repo
Java	grpc-java
Kotlin	grpc-kotlin
Go	grpc-go
NodeJS	grpc-node
WebJS	grpc-web
Dart	grpc-dart
.NET (pure C# impl.)	grpc-dotnet
Swift	grpc-swift