This is just a proof of concept for Electron + Go + gRPC. You can also check out a video walkthrough of it on YouTube.

• Make sure you have Protobuf install. If on OS X, you should be okay with just doing brew install protobuf.

• npm install from the client folder and just run electron main.js.

• Make sure you have gRPC installed. Follow the instructions here.

• From the demo folder, run the following command. protoc -I . demo.proto --go_out=plugins=grpc:.. This will generate the necessary PB package you need.

• I actually could not get the regular client generation working, so I just gave up on this and just had it dynamically generated at runtime.

• First run the server by doing go run server/main.go.
• Then run the client doing electron client/main.js.
• You're done.

If you are running into compile time errors, you might have to rebuild the dependencies. I suggest running ./client/rebuild.sh and seeing if that fixes your issues.

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