/twirp

A simple RPC framework with protobuf service definitions

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Twirp is a framework for service-to-service communication emphasizing simplicity and minimalism. It generates routing and serialization from API definition files and lets you focus on your application's logic instead of thinking about folderol like HTTP methods and paths and JSON.

Twirp is similar to gRPC, but without the custom HTTP server and transport implementations: it runs on the standard library's extremely-well-tested-and-high-performance net/http Server. It can run on HTTP 1.1, not just http/2, and supports JSON serialization for easy debugging.

Along the way, you get autogenerated clients and a simple, smart framework for passing error messages. Nice!

For more on the motivation behind Twirp (and a comparison to REST APIs and gRPC), the announcement blog post is a good read.

Documentation

Implementations in other languages

This repo contains the generator and runtime library for the Go implementation.

Here is a list of some third-party implementations in other languages.

Language Clients Servers Repository
Python3 github.com/verloop/twirpy
Java github.com/fajran/protoc-gen-twirp_java_jaxrs
Java https://github.com/devork/flit
JavaScript github.com/thechriswalker/protoc-gen-twirp_js
JavaScript github.com/Xe/twirp-codegens/cmd/protoc-gen-twirp_jsbrowser
Typescript github.com/larrymyers/protoc-gen-twirp_typescript
Ruby github.com/twitchtv/twirp-ruby
Rust github.com/cretz/prost-twirp
Scala github.com/soundcloud/twinagle
Swagger github.com/go-bridget/twirp-swagger-gen
PHP github.com/twirphp/twirp
Dart github.com/apptreesoftware/protoc-gen-twirp_dart
Elixir github.com/keathley/twirp-elixir

Support and Community

We have a channel on the Gophers slack, #twirp, which is the best place to get quick answers to your questions. You can join the Gopher slack here.

Releases

Twirp follows semantic versioning through git tags, and uses Github Releases for release notes and upgrade guides: Twirp Releases

Contributing

Check out CONTRIBUTING.md for notes on making contributions.

License

This library is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.