gRPC [Node.js] MasterClass: Build Modern API & Microservices (Udemy.com)

I took 3 of Clement's courses to continue learning about Protocol Buffers and gRPC, and I really enjoyed them. These are very detailed to learn and getting start with gRPC API Implementation. I recommend to hands-on and combine the communication between the client and the server (NodeJS and Java micro-services for example)

Sections 7 and 8 look unnecessary. In fact there is no much difference in client/server/bidirectional streaming concepts. Maybe client streaming looks like something extraordinary when we compare HTTP/2 to HTTP, but if we compare HTTP/2 to WebSockets bidirectional streaming looks just trivial. So comparison between gRPC and REST API looks weird and incorrect, it's better to compare gRPC with JSON-RPC over WebSockets.

The course was really helpful and fulfills its purpose. It would be nice to have a new section that digs into the gRPC-Gateway mentioned at the end.

The course is pretty outdated and if you are using windows, then you are going to get in mess if you are not a good developer than can debug on your own. For example, you have to search for the solution how to even run the basic "protoc" file in windows. Then the grpc library doesn't install anyway. You have have to use the updated library grpc-js. As soon as you use that library nothing works and you are on your own.

1. The hands-on are nice, but I would have preferred something closer to real-life. A bigger project, that we are building step by step probably would be better. 2. I would probably welcome better coding practices. 3. I think that some of the material of the course should be updated - like for example the command on how to generate the compiled protbuf files...

I liked the theory, cannot say the same for hands-on examples. In each video instructor tries to launch something and then spends some time to fix bugs. I understand that that's how it works in real life, but I think instructor should be more prepared before recording a video in order to don't waste learners time.

This course information was great ! Am sure this would have major architectural design impact on my work. Thanks. I will be back shortly.

Informative course, but a bit frustrated with the variable naming in this course. Everything at one point all sounds the same which led the instructor to have on-going mess ups in their code at the same time writing in all the variables that look the same was a pain because I found myself even making mistakes and having to re-check my work again and again. Excellent course, but cut back on the similar naming for your variables it screws up the enjoyment of taking the course. By the time I got to bi/di, I couldn't wait for it all to be over.

Found this course excellent in how it went through both practical and theoretical content of gRPC. I did this course following on from the Protocol Buffers course. Paulo was very good at highlighting the Node.js implementation for gRPC as well. After the Blog section, you get an excellent overview of how gRPC can be used in place of REST. Only negative is that I would have liked a little more hands-on content using the streaming API's. Maybe furthering the blog example to create a small chat application to show off the server-side push events of gRPC? All in all, a fantastic course on an amazing technology. Well done guys :-).

Great to get to know this tech. Very promising indeed. I understand that gRPC is available with almost all programming languages. My personal preference would have been to have a simple express app boilerplate that shows frontend functionality, possibly using form data, or a simple to-do app, instead of just console logging every request/response. This course could have been many more hours long and i would not have lost interest. Would have liked to dive deeper into the gRPC built-in methods/capabilities. The course was very well put together. Videos were understandable and all audio/video quality very good.