# lileio/lile

Easily generate gRPC services in Go ⚡️

Repository: https://github.com/lileio/lile
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/lile
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: grpc, go, microservice, prometheus, zipkin, pubsub, framework
Last push: 2023-07-19T07:05:49+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3507, "days_push": 1141, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1497, forks 85 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:53.849803+00:00)

## What it is
Lile is a Go framework and CLI generator for scaffolding gRPC microservices, similar to `rails new` or `create-react-app` but for gRPC services. It generates project structure with tests, Dockerfile, and Makefile, and ships with pluggable integrations for metrics, tracing, pub/sub, and service discovery.

## Use cases
- generate a new gRPC service in Go with boilerplate removed
- scaffold a microservice with Dockerfile and Makefile included
- add Prometheus metrics to a gRPC service
- add Zipkin distributed tracing to a Go service
- set up pub/sub messaging in a gRPC microservice
- quickly start a Go backend service with tests and structure

## When to choose
- starting a new Go gRPC microservice from scratch
- you want batteries-included defaults for metrics, tracing, and pub/sub
- you prefer convention-over-configuration scaffolding like Rails for services

## When to avoid
- you have an existing gRPC codebase with its own structure
- you need a framework with active development and recent releases
- you want REST-first APIs rather than gRPC/protobuf
- you need a framework with a large community and ecosystem

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: rpc, api-framework, cli, monitoring, tracing, message-queue, middleware, developer-tools
- domain: backend, microservices, apis, developer-tools, monitoring
- platform: go, cli, windows
- tags: grpc, protobuf, service-generator, prometheus, zipkin, pubsub, service-discovery, scaffolding, boilerplate, docker, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- lileio/lile (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:53.849803+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:33:09.246013+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/lileio/lile (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:53.849803+00:00, sha 55dfe960ca44)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.