Nestjs gRPC Microservice Example

Description

An example of simple microservice with nestjs using gRPC.

Installation

1. open your prefered terminal application and clone this repository

2. Move into this example directory

   cd nestjs-grpc-microservice-example

3. change directory to hero-service

   cd hero-service

4. run npm install and then npm run start:dev

5. open another terminal window and change into gateway directory

6. run npm install and then npm run start:dev

7. Open your browser go to http://localhost:3000/hero to see list of heroes or http://localhost:3000/hero/1 to see hero with id of 1, you may change the number 1 into other number, there is currently 3 hero in the list.

Directory structure

gateway                 -> Api gateway to serve data as json
hero-service            -> hero service to provide hero data
protos                  -> directory contains proto file to describe the structure of data.