Grpc flatbuffers and web

[Ged Wed]

What's the current state of play with using grpc flatbuffers in the web browser ?

I know that in the web browser the current limitation is related to Framing support.

I am looking for how easy it might be to use in use cases where you need to push updates to the browser on a flatbuffer type. For example chat.
For my specific use case I am wanting to use it for gaming and so have huge model meshes and gaming state I need to push out to many browsers at once.

Also the big elephant in the room of course is if you can use it in a WASM environment in the browser and then pump out changes to the DOM and webgl context from the WASM context.

Thanks for this amazing technology btw !!

[Wouter van Oortmerssen]

I'm not familiar with how gRPC in general would work on the web, there is https://github.com/grpc/grpc-web, but we don't have a FlatBuffers specific JS interface for gRPC yet.

Using WASM sounds like a more future-proof path, but I don't think there is a supported gRPC for WASM yet.

For now, if these are large game assets, how about using another transport (HTTP octet-stream) to pull in the FlatBuffer data, then copy it into a WASM linear memory for processing?

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