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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

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

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

License

MIT

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