Intro

While gRPC API Gateway offers extensive customization and details, this quick step-by-step guide aims to show you the fastest way to generate a reverse proxy for your gRPC service.

For a comprehensive reference of all features and configurations, see Reference.

Prerequisites

Before we start coding, ensure that you have installed the gRPC API Gateway protobuf plug-in. Refer to the Installation section for detailed instructions.

gRPC API Gateway is a protoc plug-in, similar to the Go code generator. The tool relies on the generated code from both the Go and Go gRPC plug-ins.

To install the Go and Go gRPC plug-ins, execute the following commands:

$ go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@latest
$ go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@latest