node.js - How to send a request in node to an endpoint that uses grpc-web-proto?

Question

I am trying to send an http request to this endpoint using the request library from npm, however, how would I send that payload as shown in the screenshot?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65545465/how-to-send-a-request-in-node-to-an-endpoint-that-uses-grpc-web-proto

Answer 1

If you have a client that uses grpc-web and a Node server that uses one of the Node gRPC libraries, those use different protocols so you will need to use a proxy to translate between them. For example, this grpc-web documentation page describes how to configure an Envoy proxy for that purpose.