Buf

A new way of working with Protocol Buffers.

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README.md

Getting started

Links to check out

buf.build - Our homepage
buf.build/docs - Documentation for the Buf CLI and BSR
connectrpc.com - Connect's homepage
protovalidate.com - Protovalidate's homepage
bufstatus.com - Service monitoring

Repositories

Connect

Connect has joined the CNCF. Connect repositories have migrated to github.com/connectrpc.

Protovalidate

Protovalidate is protoc-gen-validate's successor.

PluginRPC

PluginRPC is a Protobuf RPC framework for plugins.

General Repos

buf - The Buf CLI tool
bufisk - Bazelisk for Buf. Download and verify released Buf CLI versions transparently.
protobuf-es - Protobuf for ECMAScript
protocompile - The compiler that powers buf
protoyaml-go - Marshal and unmarshal Protobuf as YAML with rich error messages
prototransform - Transformations of Protobuf data
buf-gradle-plugin - Gradle plugin for the Buf CLI
rules_buf - Bazel rules for Buf
protobuf-conformance
buf-examples

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buf buf Public

The best way of working with Protocol Buffers.

Go 11.4k 366
buf-action buf-action Public

Build, format, lint, and check for breaking changes in your Protobuf schemas, and automatically publish to the Buf Schema Registry.

TypeScript 59 12
protobuf-es protobuf-es Public

Protocol Buffers for ECMAScript. The only JavaScript Protobuf library that is fully-compliant with Protobuf conformance tests.

TypeScript 1.7k 209
protovalidate protovalidate Public

Protocol Buffer Validation - Go, Java, Python, C++ and JS/TS

Go 1.6k 65
protovalidate-go protovalidate-go Public

Protocol Buffer Validation for Go

Go 485 37
protobuf-py protobuf-py Public

Idiomatic Protocol Buffers for Python.

Python 92 4

Repositories

Type Language Sort

modules Public
Collection of third-party modules managed and synced by Buf.

bufbuild/modules's past year of commit activity

Go 36 Apache-2.0 3 3 0 Updated Aug 24, 2026
protovalidate-go Public
Protocol Buffer Validation for Go

bufbuild/protovalidate-go's past year of commit activity

Go 485 Apache-2.0 37 3 2 Updated Aug 24, 2026
protobuf-es Public
Protocol Buffers for ECMAScript. The only JavaScript Protobuf library that is fully-compliant with Protobuf conformance tests.

bufbuild/protobuf-es's past year of commit activity

TypeScript 1,653 Apache-2.0 209 26 11 Updated Aug 24, 2026
interrupt-go Public
A small helper library to handle interrupt signals in Go programs.

bufbuild/interrupt-go's past year of commit activity

Go 3 Apache-2.0 0 0 0 Updated Aug 24, 2026
app-go Public
A library to help build Go applications.

bufbuild/app-go's past year of commit activity

Go 6 Apache-2.0 0 0 0 Updated Aug 24, 2026
protocompile Public
A parsing/linking engine for protobuf; the guts for a pure Go replacement of protoc.

bufbuild/protocompile's past year of commit activity

Go 343 Apache-2.0 34 8 5 Updated Aug 24, 2026
protovalidate-java Public
Protocol Buffer Validation for Java.

bufbuild/protovalidate-java's past year of commit activity

Java 68 Apache-2.0 17 3 4 Updated Aug 24, 2026
buf Public
The best way of working with Protocol Buffers.

bufbuild/buf's past year of commit activity

Go 11,382 Apache-2.0 366 59 2 Updated Aug 24, 2026
makego Public
Makefile setup for our Golang projects.

bufbuild/makego's past year of commit activity

Makefile 111 Apache-2.0 15 0 0 Updated Aug 24, 2026
plugins Public
Remote Protobuf plugins available on the BSR

bufbuild/plugins's past year of commit activity

Dockerfile 72 Apache-2.0 24 39 0 Updated Aug 24, 2026