Example of ExpressJS app & Thrift to simulate RPC (Remote Procedure Call) within microservices. See the differences between REST (ExpressJS in this case) and Thrift architecture.

Using Homebrew, use this command in Terminal

brew install thrift

Note: Refer to this docs for other platform.

We need Express and Thrift for NodeJS as dependencies, type this in Terminal.

cd /path/to/repo

npm install

Note: Make sure you have installed NodeJS

node server.js

node client.js

Type this in Terminal

curl -i http://localhost:3000/hello?name=AnyName

Open a browser and type http://localhost:3000/hello?name=AnyName in location bar.

See the code for more explanation and see how Thrift works compare to REST.

*More documentation about Thrift is here