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Echo
High performance, extensible, minimalist Go web framework.
Help and questions: Github Discussions
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
Sponsors
<div> <a href="https://encore.dev" style="display: inline-flex; align-items: center; gap: 10px"> <img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/78424526/214602214-52e0483a-b5fc-4d4c-b03e-0b7b23e012df.svg" height="28px" alt="encore icon"></img> <b>Encore – the platform for building Go-based cloud backends</b> </a> </div> <br/>Click here for more information on sponsorship.
Benchmarks
Date: 2020/11/11<br> Source: https://github.com/vishr/web-framework-benchmark<br> Lower is better!
<img src="https://i.imgur.com/qwPNQbl.png"> <img src="https://i.imgur.com/s8yKQjx.png">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
Latest version of Echo supports last four Go major releases and might work with older versions.
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!")
}
Official middleware repositories
Following list of middleware is maintained by Echo team.
| Repository | Description |
|---|---|
| github.com/labstack/echo-jwt | JWT middleware |
| github.com/labstack/echo-contrib | casbin, gorilla/sessions, jaegertracing, prometheus, pprof, zipkin middlewares |
Third-party middleware repositories
Be careful when adding 3rd party middleware. Echo teams does not have time or manpower to guarantee safety and quality of middlewares in this list.
| Repository | Description |
|---|---|
| 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/samber/slog-echo | Go slog 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.
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