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Gin
Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin. -
Iris
The fastest HTTP/2 Go Web Framework. New, modern and easy to learn. Fast development with Code you control. Unbeatable cost-performance ratio :rocket: -
Gorilla WebSocket
DISCONTINUED. A fast, well-tested and widely used WebSocket implementation for Go. -
GoFrame
GoFrame is a modular, powerful, high-performance and enterprise-class application development framework of Golang. -
goa
🌟 Goa: Elevate Go API development! 🚀 Streamlined design, automatic code generation, and seamless HTTP/gRPC support. ✨ -
Faygo
Faygo is a fast and concise Go Web framework that can be used to develop high-performance web app(especially API) with fewer codes. Just define a struct handler, faygo will automatically bind/verify the request parameters and generate the online API doc. -
Huma
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Supported Go versions
Latest version of Echo supports last four Go major releases and might work with older versions.
As of version 4.0.0, Echo is available as a Go module. Therefore a Go version capable of understanding /vN suffixed imports is required:
Any of these versions will allow you to import Echo as github.com/labstack/echo/v4
which is the recommended
way of using Echo going forward.
For older versions, please use the latest v3 tag.
Feature Overview
- Optimized HTTP router which smartly prioritize routes
- Build robust and scalable RESTful APIs
- Group APIs
- Extensible middleware framework
- Define middleware at root, group or route level
- Data binding for JSON, XML and form payload
- Handy functions to send variety of HTTP responses
- Centralized HTTP error handling
- Template rendering with any template engine
- Define your format for the logger
- Highly customizable
- Automatic TLS via Let’s Encrypt
- HTTP/2 support
Benchmarks
Date: 2020/11/11 Source: https://github.com/vishr/web-framework-benchmark Lower is better!
The benchmarks above were run on an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6820HQ CPU @ 2.70GHz
Guide
Installation
// go get github.com/labstack/echo/{version}
go get github.com/labstack/echo/v4
Example
package main
import (
"github.com/labstack/echo/v4"
"github.com/labstack/echo/v4/middleware"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
// Echo instance
e := echo.New()
// Middleware
e.Use(middleware.Logger())
e.Use(middleware.Recover())
// Routes
e.GET("/", hello)
// Start server
e.Logger.Fatal(e.Start(":1323"))
}
// Handler
func hello(c echo.Context) error {
return c.String(http.StatusOK, "Hello, World!")
}
Third-party middlewares
Repository | Description |
---|---|
github.com/labstack/echo-contrib | (by Echo team) casbin, gorilla/sessions, [jaegertracing](github.com/uber/jaeger-client-go), prometheus, pprof, zipkin middlewares |
deepmap/oapi-codegen | Automatically generate RESTful API documentation with OpenAPI Client and Server Code Generator |
github.com/swaggo/echo-swagger | Automatically generate RESTful API documentation with Swagger 2.0. |
github.com/ziflex/lecho | Zerolog logging library wrapper for Echo logger interface. |
github.com/brpaz/echozap | Uber´s Zap logging library wrapper for Echo logger interface. |
github.com/darkweak/souin/plugins/echo | HTTP cache system based on Souin to automatically get your endpoints cached. It supports some distributed and non-distributed storage systems depending your needs. |
github.com/mikestefanello/pagoda | Rapid, easy full-stack web development starter kit built with Echo. |
github.com/go-woo/protoc-gen-echo | ProtoBuf generate Echo server side code |
Please send a PR to add your own library here.
Help
Contribute
Use issues for everything
- For a small change, just send a PR.
- For bigger changes open an issue for discussion before sending a PR.
- PR should have:
- Test case
- Documentation
- Example (If it makes sense)
- You can also contribute by:
- Reporting issues
- Suggesting new features or enhancements
- Improve/fix documentation
Credits
- Vishal Rana (Author)
- Nitin Rana (Consultant)
- Roland Lammel (Maintainer)
- Martti T. (Maintainer)
- Pablo Andres Fuente (Maintainer)
- Contributors
License
*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the Echo README section above
are relevant to that project's source code only.