r19

Simple remote procedure calls (RPC) in TypeScript.

• 🪡  Fully typed procedure calls using your TypeScript types — no runtime or code generation needed.
• 🖼️  Handles binary data in both directions (think: file uploads and downloads).
• 🎛️  Compatible with any Express-like server.

Install

npm install r19

Quick start

1. Create an RPC Express middleware containing your procedures. A procedure is any sync or async function that accepts one or no arguments.

   // src/rpc-middleware.ts
   
   import { createRPCMiddleware, ExtractProcedures } from "r19";
   
   export const middleware = createRPCMiddleware({
   	procedures: {
   		ping: async () => {
   			await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));
   
   			return "pong";
   		},
   	},
   	// An optional error event handler
   	onError: ({ error, procedurePath, procedureArgs }) => { ... },
   });
   
   // This type will be passed to the RPC client.
   export type Procedures = ExtractProcedures<typeof middleware>;

2. Add the middleware to your Express-compatible server.

   // src/server.ts
   
   import express from "express";
   import { middleware } from "./rpc-middleware";
   
   const app = express();
   
   // Pass `middleware` from the previous step.
   app.use("/rpc", middleware);
   
   app.listen();

   The server is now set up to accept RPC calls at /rpc using a client.

3. In your remote app (e.g. your app's frontend), create a client to call the RPC server.

   // src/index.ts
   
   import { createRPCClient } from "r19/client";
   import type { Procedures } from "./rpc-middleware";
   
   const client = createRPCClient<Procedures>({
   	serverURL: "https://example.com/rpc",
   });
   
   const pong = await client.ping(); // => "pong"

   Calling client.ping() will send a request to the server at https://example.com/rpc and return ping()'s return value from the server. The client is fully typed using your procedure's types.

Documentation

For full documentation, visit the docs directory.

To discover what's new on this package check out the changelog.

Contributing

Whether you're helping us fix bugs, improve the docs, or spread the word, we'd love to have you as part of the Prismic developer community!

Asking a question: Open a new topic on our community forum explaining what you want to achieve / your question. Our support team will get back to you shortly.

Reporting a bug: Open an issue explaining your application's setup and the bug you're encountering.

Suggesting an improvement: Open an issue explaining your improvement or feature so we can discuss and learn more.

Submitting code changes: For small fixes, feel free to open a pull request with a description of your changes. For large changes, please first open an issue so we can discuss if and how the changes should be implemented.

For more clarity on this project and its structure you can also check out the detailed CONTRIBUTING.md document.

License

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