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GraphQL works well for this also if that's an option in your stack.

It advertises lots of benefits but the enforced schema types are worth the price of admission even if you're doing simple CRUD with no graphs.

Calling gRPC endpoints from the browser isn't something that works very well today.

Calling thrift endpoints from the browser works great. I had heard that gRPC was a thrift equivalent but haven't used it myself.

Absolutely! If you don't do this, you're just building the next unmaintainable distributed monolith.