Pollapo is a package manager for Protobuf schemas designed to simplify dependency management in modern web development projects. It allows developers to treat GitHub repositories containing .proto files as individual packages, making it easier to manage and share protobuf schemas across projects.
Key Features:
Dependency Management: Pollapo handles dependencies for Riiid, ensuring that protobuf schemas are fetched and managed efficiently.
Cross-Platform Compatibility: Built using TypeScript with Deno, Pollapo can be executed in any JavaScript environment, including Node.js and web browsers, without relying on native binaries.
Seamless Integration: It integrates smoothly into existing development workflows, allowing developers to work with protobuf schemas directly within their projects.
Audience & Benefit:
Ideal for developers working on web or backend services who need to manage Protobuf schemas. Pollapo streamlines the process of fetching, managing, and updating protobuf dependencies, reducing manual effort and potential errors in dependency management.
Pollapo can be installed via winget, making it easy to incorporate into your development environment.
> [!IMPORTANT]
> Pbkit v1 is actively under construction.
> v0.0.x is available in "maintenance mode".
>
> See https://github.com/pbkit/pbkit/issues/307
> and join the roadmap discussion on Discord.
What is Protobuf?
> Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible
> mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster,
> and simpler.
And what is Pbkit?
Pbkit is a collection of tools related to protobuf.
It is written in TypeScript and uses the Deno api.
However, it can be executed in any JavaScript environment (including Node.js or
web browser) because it does not use platform APIs inside the core directory.
What features are provided?
CLI
pb - Protobuf schema compiler like protoc.
protoc has native binary dependencies, but pb command is written in pure
TypeScript, so it can be used comfortably in Node.js projects, etc., and can
even easily be run in a web browser.
