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35 lines
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Twirp is a framework for service-to-service communication emphasizing simplicity
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and minimalism. It generates routing and serialization from API definition files
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and lets you focus on your application's logic instead of thinking about
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folderol like HTTP methods and paths and JSON.
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Define your service in a
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[Protobuf](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3) file and
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then Twirp autogenerates Go code with a server interface and fully functional
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clients. It's similar to [gRPC](http://www.grpc.io/), but without the custom
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HTTP server and transport implementations: it runs on the standard library's
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extremely-well-tested-and-high-performance `net/http` Server. It can run on HTTP
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1.1, not just http/2, and supports JSON clients for easy integrations across
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languages
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Twirp handles routing and serialization for you in a well-tested, standardized,
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thoughtful way so you don't have to. Serialization and deserialization code is
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error-prone and tricky, and you shouldn't be wasting your time deciding whether
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it should be "POST /friends/:id/new" or "POST /:id/friend" or whatever. Just
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get to the real work of building services!
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Along the way, you get an autogenerated client and a simple, smart framework for
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passing error messages. Nice!
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### Releases
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Twirp follows semantic versioning through git tags, and uses Github Releases for
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release notes and upgrade guides:
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[Twirp Releases](https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp/releases)
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### Contributing
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Check out [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md) for notes on making contributions.
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