API Design · Senior · Question 27 of 75

How can you expose a gRPC service to browsers and REST clients without duplicating logic?

✓Correct answer: Use gRPC-Web through a proxy, or a JSON/HTTP transcoding gateway driven by annotations in the .proto file
2Rewrite the service in REST
3Browsers can call gRPC natively

Explanation

Google's APIs use HTTP annotations in protos to serve the same methods as REST and gRPC.

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