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manually setup a client to see what needs to be generated

packages/example-node-grpc-client/.gitignore

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+/node_modules

packages/example-node-grpc-client/Makefile

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+.PHONY: default npm-install generate run-client
+
+
+default: npm-install run-client
+#default: npm-install generate run-client
+
+npm-install:
+	npm i
+
+#generate:
+#	npx protoc -I . --ts_out . --ts_opt client_none,generate_dependencies,optimize_code_size service-example.proto
+
+run-client:
+	npx ts-node client.ts
+
+
+fix-build:
+	# the packages grpc-backend, grpc-transport and this package all use @grpc/grpc-js,
+	# and all of them are installed separately, which breaks the code.
+	# lerna does not link them without hoisting.
+	# because we don't know what else hoisting will break, we use the following workaround
+	# and link manually.
+	rm -rf ../grpc-backend/node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js
+	rm -rf ../grpc-transport/node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js
+	ln -s -f ../../../example-node-grpc-transport-client/node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js ../grpc-backend/node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js
+	ln -s -f ../../../example-node-grpc-transport-client/node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js ../grpc-transport/node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js
+

packages/example-node-grpc-client/client.ts

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+import {ChannelCredentials} from "@grpc/grpc-js";
+import {FailRequest} from "./service-example";
+import {ExampleServiceClient} from "./todo-generate";
+
+
+const client = new ExampleServiceClient(
+    "localhost:5000",
+    ChannelCredentials.createInsecure(),
+    {},
+    {}
+);
+
+
+async function main() {
+
+    await callUnary(client);
+
+    // await callServerStream(client);
+    //
+    // await callClientStream(client);
+    //
+    // await callBidi(client);
+
+}
+
+
+async function callUnary(client: ExampleServiceClient) {
+
+    console.log(`### calling method "unary"...`)
+
+    const call = client.unary({
+        question: 'whats up?',
+        pleaseDelayResponseMs: 50,
+        pleaseFail: FailRequest.FAIL_REQUEST_NONE,
+        disableSendingExampleResponseHeaders: false,
+    }, (err, value) => {
+        if (err) {
+            console.log("got err: ", err)
+        }
+        if (value) {
+            console.log("got response message: ", value)
+        }
+    });
+
+    call.on('metadata', arg1 => {
+        console.log("got response headers: ", arg1)
+    });
+
+    call.on('status', arg1 => {
+        console.log("got status: ", arg1)
+    });
+
+    return new Promise(resolve => {
+        call.on('status', () => resolve());
+    });
+}
+
+
+main().catch(e => console.error(e)).finally(() => process.exit());
+