Beginners Guide to gRPC in Go

Based on Beginners Guide to gRPC in Go! from TutorialEdge YouTube channel.

Environment

• Ubuntu 20
• Visual Studio Code + Go plugin
• Go version 1.13.8

Steps to create

1. Read to follow: gRPC Quick start
2. Install protocol compiler: sudo apt install protobuf-compiler
3. export PATH="$PATH:$(go env GOPATH)/bin"
4. export GO111MODULE=on
5. go get google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc
6. go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc
7. Prepare files server.go , chat.proto and chat folder.
8. go get -u github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go
9. protoc --go_out=./chat --go_opt=paths=source_relative --go-grpc_out=./chat --go-grpc_opt=paths=source_relative chat.proto
10. Prepare chat.go
11. go mod init chat to create local module. Replaced go mod init github.com/tutorialedge/go-grpc-tutorial/chat from tutorial.
12. Prepare client.go