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🎯 Goal

GoFr is designed to simplify microservice development, with key focuses on Kubernetes deployment and out-of-the-box observability. While capable of building generic applications, microservices remain at its core.

💡 Key Features

1. Simple API Syntax
2. REST Standards by Default
3. Configuration Management
4. Observability (Logs, Traces, Metrics)
5. Inbuilt Auth Middleware & Custom Middleware Support
6. gRPC Support
7. HTTP Service with Circuit Breaker Support
8. Pub/Sub
9. Health Check for All Datasources
10. Database Migration
11. Cron Jobs
12. Support for Changing Log Level Without Restarting
13. Swagger Rendering
14. Abstracted File Systems
15. Websockets

🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• GoFr requires Go version 1.21 or above.

Installation

To get started with GoFr, add the following import to your code and use Go’s module support to automatically fetch dependencies:

import "gofr.dev/pkg/gofr"

Alternatively, use the command:

go get -u gofr.dev/pkg/gofr

🏃 Running GoFr

Here's a simple example to get a GoFr application up and running:

package main

import "gofr.dev/pkg/gofr"

func main() {
    app := gofr.New()

    app.GET("/greet", func(ctx *gofr.Context) (interface{}, error) {
        return "Hello World!", nil
    })

    app.Run() // listens and serves on localhost:8000 
}

To run this code:

$ go run main.go

Visit localhost:8000/greet to see the result.

📂 More Examples

Explore a variety of ready-to-run examples in the GoFr examples directory.

👩‍💻 Documentation

• GoDoc: Official API documentation.
• GoFr Documentation: Comprehensive guides and resources.

👍 Contribute

Help us make GoFr even better:

1. Star this repo on GitHub! 🌟
2. Write a review or tutorial on Medium, Dev.to, or your blog.
3. Review the CONTRIBUTING.md guide to learn how to contribute to the project.

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If your PR is merged, or if you contribute by writing articles or promoting GoFr, we invite you to fill out this form to claim your GoFr merchandise as a token of our appreciation!