Publish compiler binaries for protoc-gen-es #1235
Description
As suggested in PR #1225 I'm openning the issue for discussing this.
The premise of the feature request would be that it would be nice to have published self contained binaries somewhere so that protoc-gen-es can be used even as a standalone tool. This is particularly useful if a user's compilation setup is not as straightforward, for example, in my case I have a Java Maven project setup with multiple modules, and in these modules I'm compiling Java code but at the same time generating the Connect client. The issue is that because the plugin needs to be installed through npm, you need to reference the binary from node_modules, which makes it feasible to compile but at the same time makes it really convoluted.