Mali: Minimalistic gRPC Framework

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Mali is a minimalistic, middleware-based gRPC microservice framework for Node.js, designed to simplify the creation of gRPC servers. It operates similarly to popular HTTP frameworks like Koa or Express, leveraging a context object (`ctx`) for request and response handling within a cascading middleware pattern. The current stable version is `0.47.1`. The project maintains a regular, albeit not rapid, release cadence, primarily focusing on dependency updates, performance improvements, and bug fixes, as seen in recent versions like `v0.47.0` and `v0.46.0`. Its key differentiator lies in its commitment to minimalism and a familiar middleware API for gRPC, abstracting away some of the complexities of the underlying `@grpc/grpc-js` and `@grpc/proto-loader` libraries, which are required as peer dependencies. It also ships with TypeScript types.

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