go-gopher-grpc

This repo contains a simple CLI (Command Line Interface) application with a gRPC server in Go, with a basic code organization. We use:

• net/http package to retrieve our cute Gophers
• Cobra for creating powerful modern CLI applications
• Viper to ...
• ...

go-gopher-grpc use Taskfile (a Makefile alternative).

Please read the Learning Go by examples: part 6 - xx article in order to know more about this Git repository.

Pre-requisites

Install Go in 1.16 version minimum.

or:

Generate protoc files

$ task generate

Build the app

$ go build -o bin/go-gopher-grpc main.go

or

$ task build

Run the app

$ ./bin/go-gopher-grpc server

or

$ task run

Test the app

Usage:

$ ./bin/gopher-grpc
gRPC application written in Go.

Usage:
  go-gopher-grpc [command]

Available Commands:
  client      Query the gRPC server
  completion  generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
  help        Help about any command
  server      Starts the Schema gRPC server

Flags:
      --config string   config file (default is $HOME/.go-gopher-grpc.yaml)
  -h, --help            help for go-gopher-grpc
  -t, --toggle          Help message for toggle

Use "go-gopher-grpc [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Run the gRPC server:

./bin/gopher-grpc server
task: [build] GOFLAGS=-mod=mod go build -o bin/gopher-grpc main.go
2021/08/09 14:22:39 GRPC server listening on [::]:9000

In another tab of your terminal, run the gRPC client:

$ ./bin/gopher-grpc client gandalf
2021/08/09 14:22:42 URL: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scraly/gophers/main/gandalf.png

Cool! you should have one log file in your server, like this:

2021/08/09 14:22:41 Received: gandalf