MImichaelwww·Mar 13, 2013
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7 sourcesI'd like to add a few more options. First there is pat, by the Heroku / the guy that created Sinatra: https://github.com/bmizerany/pat
if you need simple routing and REST url parameters this is a great library to use. I've found it outperforms many of the other routing libraries. The best part is that it (mostly) uses the standard net.http library and you don't need to code against custom APIs.
there is also Gorilla Web Toolkit: http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/
this library has been around for a couple years, and is often recommended on the Go mailing list. It recently switched from Google Code to Github, so it doesn't have as many stars as the others. It provides routing, secure cookies, sessions, and more.
I personally would start with Gorilla or Pat, because they are very thin layers on top of the standard net.http library with little ab
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straction ... in many cases the standard library works great. If you end up needing a higher level framework you can always switch to something like Revel.
Revel is getting traction mostly among people who (like its author) are not very familiar with Go.
As gorilla http://gorilla-web.appspot.com/ and pat https://github.com/bmizerany/pat (by the creator of Sinatra) are much more in line with the Go philosophy.
In Google's Go Programming Language Grows Up: Now What?> The most popular web frameworks i've seen for Go so far are Web.go (a Web.py clone) and Revel (a Play clone).
Unfortunately both web.go and specially Revel were developed by people that were not (yet?) familiar with Go's style, and they simply cloned what they expected from other languages and frameworks they were more familiar with.
Gorilla[1] and pat[2] (by the creator of Sinatra, who is now a Gopher) fit much more with the Go style and philosophy.
[1]: http://gorilla-web.appspot.com/
[2]: https://github.com/bmizerany/pat
In Google's Go Programming Language Grows Up: Now What?Gorilla and pat (by the author of Sinatra) are probably the web "frameworks" I would recommend if you want to stick with minimalist idiomatic Go style.
http://code.google.com/p/gorilla/
https://github.com/bmizerany/pat
And just say no to ORM.
Disclaimer: I contributed to the original Gorilla design, but all the credit should go to moraes (and everyone else who was contributed to the project).
In Revel, high-productivity Go web framework modeled on Play FrameworkPat (formerly pat.go) - A Sinatra style pattern muxer for Go's net/http library
1 points · Open discussionGorilla's mux adds much more capable and advanced routing. It's really nice to use it with subroutes, etc. Again, dead simple partly because it's designed well and partly because Go makes it easy to build.
http://gorilla-web.appspot.com/pkg/gorilla/mux/
If you want something more lightweight (Gorilla's not "heavy" by any means) there is pat (formerly pat.go)
https://github.com/bmizerany/pat
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