tron-protocol-node

Tron Node Protocol

This npm package contains the compiled to node.js tron protocol gRPC API code.
The code was compiled from https://github.com/tronprotocol/protocol

Introduction

Tron protocol offers two ways to communicate with nodes : http and gRPC API.
The gRPC API is specified with google protobuf, which is a mechanism for serializing structured data and an Interface Description Language.
Google Protobuf code can be compiled to different languages - C++, Java, Node.js, etc.
This package is a compiled to Node.js google protobuf code.

Steps to compile the code :

Download the latest version of the protocol

git clone https://github.com/tronprotocol/protocol.git && cd protocol/

Install google apis required for the compilation process

./install-googleapis.sh

Create a folder which will contain the artifacts from the compilation

mkdir node-protocol/

Install grpc compilation tools

npm i -g grpc-tools

Run the compilation command for protocol/api/ files (artifacts are in node-protocol/api -> api_pb.js and api_grpc_pb.js)

protoc --js_out=import_style=commonjs,binary:node-protocol/ --grpc_out=node-protocol/ --plugin=protoc-gen-grpc=\`which grpc_tools_node_protoc_plugin` api/api.proto

Run the compilation command for protocol/core/ files (artifacts are in node-protocol/core)

protoc --js_out=import_style=commonjs,binary:node-protocol/ core/*