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High-performance Protocol Buffers for JavaScript and TypeScript. Conformant through Edition 2026, and unusually versatile. No protoc…

End-to-end type-safe APIs for TypeScript monorepos without schemas or code generation.

High-performance RPC framework over HTTP/2 with Protocol Buffers; the standard for service-to-service calls.

Google's language-neutral binary serialization format and IDL behind gRPC.

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Metric	protobuf.js	tRPC	gRPC	Protocol Buffers
Stars	10.6k	40.8k	45.4k	72.2k
Weekly downloads	123M	6.8M	n/a	n/a
Download growth	+32%	+40%	n/a	n/a
Popularity score	87/100	84/100	85/100	89/100
Forks	1.9k	1.7k	11.3k	16.4k
Open issues	100	124	1.4k	418
Last commit	1w ago	3d ago	1d ago	today
Latest version	8.8.1	11.28.0	n/a	n/a
License	n/a	MIT	Apache-2.0	n/a
First released	2013	2020	2014	2014
Signals	None	None	Popular	Popular
Listed in	Backend › RPC, gRPC & OpenAPI	Frontend › Data Fetching & API Clients Backend › RPC, gRPC & OpenAPI	Backend › RPC, gRPC & OpenAPI	Backend › RPC, gRPC & OpenAPI

Hover for exact values; switch to log scale for tools of very different sizes. Not shown (no comparable download data): gRPC, Protocol Buffers.

High-performance Protocol Buffers for JavaScript and TypeScript. Conformant through Edition 2026, and unusually versatile. No protoc…

End-to-end type-safe APIs for TypeScript monorepos without schemas or code generation.

High-performance RPC framework over HTTP/2 with Protocol Buffers; the standard for service-to-service calls.

Google's language-neutral binary serialization format and IDL behind gRPC.

Metric	protobuf.js	tRPC	gRPC	Protocol Buffers
Stars	10.6k	40.8k	45.4k	72.2k
Weekly downloads	123M	6.8M	n/a	n/a
Download growth	+32%	+40%	n/a	n/a
Popularity score	87/100	84/100	85/100	89/100
Forks	1.9k	1.7k	11.3k	16.4k
Open issues	100	124	1.4k	418
Last commit	1w ago	3d ago	1d ago	today
Latest version	8.8.1	11.28.0	n/a	n/a
License	n/a	MIT	Apache-2.0	n/a
First released	2013	2020	2014	2014
Signals	None	None	Popular	Popular
Listed in	Backend › RPC, gRPC & OpenAPI	Frontend › Data Fetching & API Clients Backend › RPC, gRPC & OpenAPI	Backend › RPC, gRPC & OpenAPI	Backend › RPC, gRPC & OpenAPI

Hover for exact values; switch to log scale for tools of very different sizes. Not shown (no comparable download data): gRPC, Protocol Buffers.