Repo for demoing how to use google protobuf
To run the app(in mac, 'brew install protobuf' first), go to the src folder:
1. run 'make' command in terminal, which will generate a console app named 'addressbook'
2. in terminal, run ./addressbook <filename> to start the app, e.g. ./addressbook testfile
To run the app, you need to install a few python packages, cd to demo-app/server, and run pip install -r requirements.txt
To start the entire demp app:
1. cd to 'demo-app/server', run 'python app.py' to start dummy api server
2. cd to 'demo-app/client', run 'npm start' to start dummy server serving static files
Then you can start using postman (desktop version) to test the simple api endpoint, or go to localost:8080 to play with the simple demo app.