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Ecosystem

Protobuf Ecosystem

The Protocol Buffers ecosystem stretches far beyond Google's official compiler. Below is an interactive explorer showcasing the most popular tools, plugins, and serialization libraries used by developers to compile, lint, format, validate, and transport Protobuf messages. Missing a tool or library? Submit a project to help grow the registry.

Found 137 projects
Showing 97–108 of 137 projects
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tools
39.9k
Popularity
Total:39,905
Past Week:+28
Past Month:+454

Insomnia

BY Kong

A collaborative API client that supports debugging, testing, and mocking gRPC and Protobuf APIs.

Kong/insomniaWebsite
tools
31.1k
Popularity
Total:31,114
Past Week:+63
Past Month:+263

k6

BY grafana

An open-source, developer-centric performance testing tool by Grafana that supports load testing gRPC services using custom JavaScript scenarios.

grafana/k6Website
tools
28.6k
Popularity
Total:28,639
Past Week:+53
Past Month:+209

Envoy

BY envoyproxy

A high-performance edge and service proxy with native, deep support for routing, translating, and observing gRPC/Protobuf traffic.

envoyproxy/envoyWebsite
tools
9.6k
Popularity
Total:9,645
Past Week:+34
Past Month:+138

Wireshark

BY wireshark

A network packet sniffer with built-in Protocol Buffers and gRPC dissectors, enabling you to decode and inspect raw binary protobuf messages over the wire.

wireshark/wiresharkWebsite
libraries
25.8k
Popularity
Total:25,817
Past Week:+14
Past Month:+88

Kratos

BY go-kratos

A Go microservices framework for the cloud-native era, using Protobuf and gRPC as its foundation.

go-kratos/kratosWebsite
plugins
23.0k
Popularity
Total:23,016
Past Week:+11
Past Month:+73

grpc-go

BY grpc

The official Go implementation of gRPC, including the protoc-gen-go-grpc code generator plugin.

grpc/grpc-goWebsite
libraries
12.4k
Popularity
Total:12,389
Past Week:+15
Past Month:+68

Tonic

BY hyperium

A native gRPC client and server implementation for Rust, built on top of Hyper, Tokio, and Prost.

hyperium/tonic
libraries
41.5k
Popularity
Total:41,544
Past Week:+19
Past Month:+60

Apache Dubbo

BY apache

A popular microservices framework from Alibaba. Its 'Triple' protocol natively adopts HTTP/2 and Protobuf for modern, gRPC-compatible serialization.

apache/dubboWebsite
tools
12.7k
Popularity
Total:12,749
Past Week:+13
Past Month:+56

grpcurl

BY fullstorydev

Like cURL, but for gRPC: Command-line tool for interacting with gRPC servers.

fullstorydev/grpcurl
libraries
17.6k
Popularity
Total:17,570
Past Week:+17
Past Month:+43

Apache brpc

BY apache

An industrial-grade C++ RPC framework by Baidu. It is heavily optimized for extreme concurrency and low latency, often used in massive service deployments.

apache/brpcWebsite
libraries
8.0k
Popularity
Total:8,001
Past Week:+9
Past Month:+37

Kitex

BY cloudwego

High-performance Go RPC framework for building microservices, natively supporting Protobuf.

cloudwego/kitexWebsite
libraries
5.9k
Popularity
Total:5,863
Past Week:+9
Past Month:+34

Typia

BY samchon

Super-fast runtime validators and serialization library for TypeScript using transformers, supporting Protobuf.

samchon/typiaWebsite
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