Protocol buffers ​

pbkit & buf are nice. protoc-gen-lint is nice for linting.

Liked this talk as an intro.

Links ​

• prototool - Your Swiss Army Knife for Protocol Buffers.
• Protocol Buffers for Go with Gadgets - Fork of golang/protobuf with extra code generation features.
• Gunk - Modern frontend and syntax for Protocol Buffers.
• protoc-gen-validate - Protoc plugin to generate polyglot message validators.
• protoc-gen-star - Protoc plugin library for efficient proto-based code generation.
• rust-protobuf - Rust implementation of Google protocol buffers.
• Piqi - Universal schema language and a collection of tools built around it.
• Protocol Buffers implementation in C
• protoc-gen-doc - Documentation generator plugin for Google Protocol Buffers.
• pprof - Tool for visualization and analysis of profiling data.
• qpprof - Helper tool to work with profile.proto (pprof) files.
• Riegeli/records - File format for storing a sequence of string records, typically serialized protocol buffers.
• Buf - New way of working with Protocol Buffers. (Web) (CLI 1.0) (HN)
• Nanopb - Protocol Buffers for Embedded Systems.
• anyvendor - All purpose tool to make working with protoc easier.
• proto - Package in Go for parsing Google Protocol Buffers.
• hrpc - Simple RPC with Protobuf Services.
• Golang ProtoBuf Validator Compiler
• protopatch - Patch protoc plugin output with Go-specific features.
• Wire - GRPC and protocol buffers for Android, Kotlin, and Java. (Support for Swift)
• pb-jelly - Protobuf code generation framework for the Rust language developed at Dropbox. (HN)
• Molecule - Go library for parsing protobufs in an efficient and zero-allocation manner.
• How to Easily use GRPC and Protocol Buffers with NodeJS (2020)
• protoc-gen-gotemplate - Generic protocol generator based on golang's text/template.
• ts-proto - Idiomatic protobuf generator for TypeScript.
• BinExport - Export disassemblies into Protocol Buffers.
• Protobuf to JSON-Schema compiler
• NoProto - Performance of Protocol Buffers with flexibility of JSON.
• Don't Use Protobuf for Telemetry (2020) (HN)
• go-proto-gql - Protoc plugins for generating graphql schema and quickly create servers.
• Protocol Puffers - Little, highly templated, and protobuf-compatible serialization/deserialization library written in C++20.
• Pyrobuf - Alternative to Google's Python Protobuf library.
• Protobuf Rules for Bazel
• Parsing Protobuf at 2+GB/s: How I Learned To Love Tail Calls in C (2021) (HN)
• Kiwi Message Format - Schema-based binary format for efficiently encoding trees of data. (Demo)
• protolint - Pluggable linter and fixer to enforce Protocol Buffer style and conventions.
• vtprotobuf - Protocol Buffers compiler that generates optimized marshaling & unmarshaling Go code for ProtoBuf APIv2. (Article) (HN)
• protolock - Track your .proto files and prevent changes to messages and services which impact API compatibility.
• Protocol Buffers + Docker - Lightweight protoc Docker image.
• pprofutils - Command line utilities for converting pprof files to Brendan Gregg's folded text format (output by his stackcollapse scripts) and vice versa.
• Protoman - Postman-like API client for protobuf-based messages.
• protoc-gen-gorm - Protobuf compiler plugin designed to generate GORM models and APIs for simple object persistence tasks.
• Creating a protoc plugin to generate Go code with protogen (2021)
• Protobuf Field Mask utils for Go
• Protocol Buffers for Node.js
• Protobuf parser for Go
• upb - Small protobuf implementation written in C.
• JSON-to-Proto: Convert JSON to Protobuf instantly (Code)
• go-protoparser - Go package which parses a Protocol Buffer file.
• Protoflex - Modern JavaScript library for working with arbitrary Protobuf data.
• DataFusion + Substrait - Substrait provides a cross-language serialization format for relational algebra, based on protocol buffers.
• protoc-gen-prost - protoc plugin that generates code using the Prost! code generation engine.
• pbkit - Protobuf toolkit written in Deno/TypeScript. (Web) (HN)
• csproto - CrowdStrike's Protocol Buffers library.
• protobuf-ts - Protobuf and RPC for TypeScript.
• protoletariat - Protocol Buffers for the rest of us.
• protoc-gen-lint - Plug-in for Google's Protocol Buffers compiler to check .proto files for style violations.
• protoc-gen-go-json - Protobuf compiler plugin to generate Go JSON Marshal/Unmarshal implementations for messages using jsonpb.
• Protoc Gen TypeScript - Compile protocol buffer messages to TypeScript.
• FHIR Protocol Buffers
• tree-sitter-proto - tree-sitter grammar for protocol buffer files (proto3).
• Logging protobuf messages
• Proto2http - Protocol Buffers to HTTP client code generator/converter.
• APBuf (Algebraic Protocol Buffers) - Compiler that generates decoders/encoders from a single configuration file that specifies the data format.
• Aleka - Schema agnostic protobuf decoder tool.
• protoc-gen-apidocs - Simple and customizable protoc generator that translates .proto files into clean and readable markdown format.
• ts-proto-common-types - TypeScript generated with ts-proto for the google/protobuf types.
• ProtoScript - Protobuf runtime and code generation tool for JavaScript and TypeScript.
• as-proto - Protobuf implementation in AssemblyScript.
• Protobuf-ES - Complete implementation of Protocol Buffers in TypeScript, suitable for web browsers and Node.js. (Article) (HN)
• Protoscope - Simple, human-editable language for representing and emitting the Protobuf wire format.
• Faster Protocol Buffers (2019)
• Protocol Buffers Language Details
• The Protobuf Language Specification (2022) (HN)
• Pilota - Thrift and protobuf implementation in pure rust with high performance and extensibility.
• cloudstd - Generate Protobuf service definitions conforming to popular design guides.
• pb-to-typescript - Converter to transform from Protobuf to Typescript definition files.
• Blackbox Protobuf - Tools for working with encoded Protocol Buffers (protobuf) without the matching protobuf definition.
• Buf Schema Registry Plugins
• JS Protocol Buffers
• protofmt - Formatter for Protocol Buffer Files.
• Protocol Buffers- A Banked Journey - Christopher Reeves (2022)
• OpenAPI generation from Protobuf
• PGGT - Protoc plugin used to add/replace struct tags on generated protobuf messages.
• Fast and dynamic encoding of Protocol Buffers in Go (2023) (HN)
• prost-reflect - Protobuf library extending prost with reflection support and dynamic messages.
• protox - Pure-rust protobuf compiler, designed for use with prost-build.
• setup-protoc - GitHub action for setting up the Protocol Buffers compiler.
• Timestamp - Protobuf cross-language timestamp encoding.
• protoCURL - cURL for Protobuf. (HN)
• Proto Gen MD Diagrams - Utility for generating Markdown documentation for Protocol Buffers that include Mermaid UML Diagrams.
• Protobuf Decoder - Web application based on React to decode and visualize Protobuf data (hex) into prettified table layout.
• bufls - Protobuf language server compatible with Buf.
• proto-gen - Protobuf to Rust code generation using tonic-build.
• protovalidate-go - Protocol Buffer Validation.
• Cybozu Public Protocol Buffers Schema - Normalization and validation system for Protocol Buffers.
• protovalidate - Protocol Buffer Validation.
• pbtree - go get for Protobuf - the missing link in your pb toolchain.
• SCIP indexer for Protocol Buffers
• protobom - Universal SBOM representation in protocol buffers.
• Buffrs - Opinionated protobuf package manager.
• proto-go-setter - Add setters for generated message fields.