🚀 Setting Up the Protobuf Path

To set up Protobuf for your Go gRPC services, follow the steps below:

Begin by installing the Protobuf compiler and the necessary Go plugins:

# Install the Protobuf compiler
# For macOS
brew install protobuf  
# For Ubuntu
sudo apt install protobuf-compiler

Install the Go plugins for Protobuf and gRPC

go install google.golang.org/protobuf/cmd/protoc-gen-go@latest go install google.golang.org/grpc/cmd/protoc-gen-go-grpc@latest`

Create a gen directory in your project to store the generated code:

mkdir gen

Use the protoc command to generate Go code for your .proto files. Run the following commands for each file:

protoc --go_out=gen --go-grpc_out=gen proto/user.proto
protoc --go_out=gen --go-grpc_out=gen proto/payment.proto`

In your main.go files for both the User and Payment services, update the import paths to point to the generated code:

User Service (user-service/main.go):
```
pb "path/to/your/project/gen/user"` 
```

Payment Service (payment-service/main.go):

`pb "path/to/your/project/gen/payment"`

After generating the code and updating the imports, build the services using the following commands:

# Build the Payment Service
go build -o ../tmp/payment-service-executable

go build -o ../tmp/user-service-executable

Ensure that you have the correct path to your project in the import statements.
The generated code will be placed in the gen directory. Verify that the files are created successfully.
Consider adding the gen directory to your .gitignore file to avoid version control issues with generated code.