gRPC Clicker

Extension uses grpcurl under the hood, it will be installed automatically with extension.

This extension provides ability to execute gRPC calls from VSCode, using grpcurl CLI commands (similarly to docker extension).

Github repository is just a mirror, but issues/pull requests are tracked there aswell. Mail repo is gitea.

Functionality:

Extension provides following functionality:

• Execute gRPC calls from VSCode
• View schema of your services and messages as a tree in a side bar
• Export prepared gRPCurl CLI request for executiong from coommand prompt
• Add headers to request
• View full history of requests in side panel
• Create collections with tests of your requests and executete them
• Get generated templates of messages in request tab
• Json highlighting/formatting/validation for requests
• Restore your requests from history, save parameters such as hosts and headers in local storage

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Get started

1. Add proto files and navigate across the schema.

   

2. Add reflect servers and check schema.

   

3. Add headers to request metadata in grpcurl format.

   

4. Restore your requests from history, via single click

   

5. Create tests with code, time and content conditions

   

6. Export grpcurl CLI command snippet for your friends without vscode :)

   

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Troubleshooting

Most of the time, command gRPC Clicker: clean all extension cache helps to resolve possible issues.

Otherwise feel welcome to write an issue in gitea repository.

Quick commands

Also you can use vscode command palette commands, to quicker manipulate different extension capabilities:

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Tech stack

This extension is built on top of edge technologies, such as:

• grpcurl - used for processing of gRPC calls
• svelte - used for UI in extension webview
• vscode-webview-ui-toolkit - used for several webview components