gRPC and gRPC-web via a single Istio gateway port

gRPC and gRPC-web via a single Istio gateway port(jackieli.dev)

7 points by jackielii 4 years ago | 2 comments

I love grpc but man what an oversight to not build it with browser support in mind.

I can literally hear the PMs and idiom centric engineers talking about how the browser is out of scope and they shouldn’t over optimize… lol

rektide 4 years ago | |

I'm mad the browser has gotten not at all better at doing HTTP. It's criminal that Fetch never developed Push support[1], and now the browser is removing it, having never let us even try to use this capability. I think things like multi-way streaming are probably much more doable with modern Fetch, but I'm not totally sure.

The browser folks have such a narrowminded view on what http is for. If it can't help them load pages off one of their CDNs faster, they don't care.

[1] https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/65