Hi, does `kotlinx-serialization-protobuf` work wit...

# serialization

[Tianyu Zhu]

Hi, does kotlinx-serialization-protobuf work with Kotlin/JS?

[Johann Pardanaud]

yes: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.serialization/blob/master/formats/README.md#protobuf

[Tianyu Zhu]

Oh wow! So how does that work? I didn't think that browsers could deserialize binary formats like Protobuf

[Johann Pardanaud]

Actually they can, even Google provides an official (an crappy) support of protobuf on browsers : https://www.npmjs.com/package/google-protobuf
Protobuf is just a binary format, you can deserialize it by reading the binary, and JS can do that!

What is not supported on browsers is gRPC, because browsers don't provide low-level APIs to handle HTTP2 requests/responses