Warning: This library is under active development, and should not be considered production ready
The Graft project explores what the web could become, if we extended microservice architectures into the client.
When you graft something, it involves joining together parts to create a new whole.
One that is hopefully more adaptable, resilient and ultimately interesting.
"Instead of pretending everything is a local function even over the network ..., what if we did it the other way around?
Pretend your components are communicating over a network even when they aren't?"
-- Docker's Solomon Hykes on LibChan - [link]
Libchan is the connective tissue to all our endeavours. It is a microservices library announced by the Docker project, and it is going to form the basis of all of the tools they build in the future.
It's most unique characteristic is that it replicates the semantics of go channels across network connections, while allowing for nested channels to be transferred in messages. This would let you to do things like attach a reference to a remote file on an HTTP response, that could be opened on the remote end for reading or writing.
The protocol uses SPDY as it's default transport with MSGPACK as it's default serialization format. Both are able to be switched out, with http1+websockets and protobuf fallbacks planned.
While the RequestResponse pattern is the primary focus, Asynchronous Message Passing is still possible, due to the low level nature of the protocol.
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The npm package graft receives a total of 2 weekly downloads. As such, graft popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that graft demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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