Introduction

Pbkit is a collection of tools related to protobuf.

It is written in TypeScript and uses the Deno API.

However, it can be executed in any JavaScript environment (including Node.js or web browser) because it does not use platform APIs inside the core directory.

What is Protobuf?

https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers

Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler.

What features are provided?

CLI

• pb - Protobuf schema compiler like protoc.
  • protoc has native binary dependencies, but pb command is written in pure TypeScript, so it can be used comfortably in Node.js projects, etc., and can even easily be run in a web browser.
• pollapo - A package manager for the protobuf schema.
  • A GitHub repository of .proto files is treated as a single pollapo package.

Browser Extension

• pbkit-devtools
  • 
  • repo
  • chrome web store

Editor Extension

• vscode-pbkit
  • Syntax highlight, Go to definition for VSCode.
  • repo
  • Visual Studio Marketplace

Library

• Deno - deno.land/x/pbkit
• NPM - pbkit
  • @pbkit/runtime - This is a separate package with only the runtime folder.
  • See also - https://github.com/pbkit/npm-packages
    • RPC related libraries
      • frpc-client
      • frpc-server
      • grpc-client
      • grpc-web-client

Who uses pbkit?

Company

• Riiid - Pbkit was originally created to use protobuf in Riiid.

Open source project

• AST explorer - Used to parse protobuf files
• AstQL - Used to parse protobuf files

License

pbkit is dual-licensed under Apache 2.0 and MIT terms.
see LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT for details.