---
title: Announcing gRPC-JS 1.0
date: 2020-04-20
author:
  name: Michael Lumish
  link: https://github.com/murgatroid99
---

We are excited to announce the release of version 1.0 of [**gRPC-JS**
(@grpc/grpc-js)][grpc-js], a pure-TypeScript reimplementation of the original
[Node gRPC library, grpc][grpc].

## Features

gRPC-JS supports the following features, which should cover most use cases:

- Clients
- Automatic reconnection
- Servers
- Streaming
- Metadata
- Partial compression support: clients can decompress response messages
- Pick first and round robin load balancing policies
- Client Interceptors
- Connection Keepalives
- HTTP Connect support (proxies)

## Should I use @grpc/grpc-js or grpc?

The original Node gRPC library ([grpc][]) will no longer receive feature
updates and we plan to deprecate it in a year,
so we recommend that you use gRPC-JS, [@grpc/grpc-js][grpc-js].

However, some advanced features haven't been ported to gRPC-JS yet, such as full
compression support or support for other load balancing policies. If you need
one of these features, you should use the [grpc][] library, but open a [feature
request][] over gRPC-JS to let us know which features you are missing the most.

[feature request]: https://github.com/grpc/grpc-node/issues/new?template=feature_request.md
[grpc]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/grpc
[grpc-js]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@grpc/grpc-js