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<h1 style="text-align: center; font-size: 100px; font-weight: 500;"> <i>Go</i>Fr </h1> <p align="center"> <img align="center" width="300" alt="logo" src="https://github.com/gofr-dev/gofr/assets/44036979/916fe7b1-42fb-4af1-9e0b-4a7a064c243c"> </p> <h2 align="center" style="font-size: 28px;"><b>GoFr: An Opinionated Microservice Development Framework</b></h2> <div align="center"> <a href="https://pkg.go.dev/gofr.dev"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/GoDoc-Read%20Documentation-blue?style=for-the-badge" alt="godoc"></a> <a href="https://gofr.dev/docs"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/GoFr-Docs-orange?style=for-the-badge" alt="gofr-docs"></a> <a href="https://codeclimate.com/github/gofr-dev/gofr/maintainability"><img src="https://img.shields.io/codeclimate/maintainability/gofr-dev/gofr?style=for-the-badge" alt="maintainability"></a> <a href="https://codeclimate.com/github/gofr-dev/gofr/test_coverage"><img src="https://img.shields.io/codeclimate/coverage/gofr-dev/gofr?style=for-the-badge" alt="test-coverage"></a> <a href="https://goreportcard.com/report/gofr.dev"><img src="https://goreportcard.com/badge/gofr.dev?style=for-the-badge" alt="Go Report Card"></a> <a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/Apache-2.0"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/License-Apache_2.0-blue?style=for-the-badge" alt="Apache 2.0 License"></a> <a href="https://discord.gg/wsaSkQTdgq"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/discord-join-us?style=for-the-badge&logo=discord&color=7289DA" alt="discord" /></a> <a href="https://gurubase.io/g/gofr"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Gurubase-Ask%20GoFr%20Guru-006BFF?style=for-the-badge" /></a> </div> <h2 align="center">Listed in the <a href="https://landscape.cncf.io/?selected=go-fr">CNCF Landscape</a></h2>

🎯 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

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


👍 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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