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For older versions, please use the latest v3 tag. ## 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 ## [Guide](https://echo.labstack.com/guide) ### Installation ```sh // go get github.com/labstack/echo/{version} go get github.com/labstack/echo/v5 ``` ### Example ```go package main import ( "github.com/labstack/echo/v5" "github.com/labstack/echo/v5/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 if err := e.Start(":1323"); err != http.ErrServerClosed { log.Fatal(err) } } // Handler func hello(c echo.Context) error { return c.String(http.StatusOK, "Hello, World!") } ``` # Third-party middlewares | Repository | Description | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | [github.com/labstack/echo-contrib](https://github.com/labstack/echo-contrib) | (by Echo team) [casbin](https://github.com/casbin/casbin), [gorilla/sessions](https://github.com/gorilla/sessions), [jaegertracing](github.com/uber/jaeger-client-go), [prometheus](https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/), [pprof](https://pkg.go.dev/net/http/pprof), [zipkin](https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin-go) middlewares | | [deepmap/oapi-codegen](https://github.com/deepmap/oapi-codegen) | Automatically generate RESTful API documentation with [OpenAPI](https://swagger.io/specification/) Client and Server Code Generator | | [github.com/swaggo/echo-swagger](https://github.com/swaggo/echo-swagger) | Automatically generate RESTful API documentation with [Swagger](https://swagger.io/) 2.0. | | [github.com/ziflex/lecho](https://github.com/ziflex/lecho) | [Zerolog](https://github.com/rs/zerolog) logging library wrapper for Echo logger interface. | | [github.com/brpaz/echozap](https://github.com/brpaz/echozap) | Uber´s [Zap](https://github.com/uber-go/zap) logging library wrapper for Echo logger interface. | | [github.com/darkweak/souin/plugins/echo](https://github.com/darkweak/souin/tree/master/plugins/echo) | HTTP cache system based on [Souin](https://github.com/darkweak/souin) to automatically get your endpoints cached. It supports some distributed and non-distributed storage systems depending your needs. | | [github.com/mikestefanello/pagoda](https://github.com/mikestefanello/pagoda) | Rapid, easy full-stack web development starter kit built with Echo. | Please send a PR to add your own library here. ## Help - [Forum](https://github.com/labstack/echo/discussions) ## 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](https://github.com/vishr) (Author) - [Nitin Rana](https://github.com/nr17) (Consultant) - [Roland Lammel](https://github.com/lammel) (Maintainer) - [Martti T.](https://github.com/aldas) (Maintainer) - [Pablo Andres Fuente](https://github.com/pafuent) (Maintainer) - [Contributors](https://github.com/labstack/echo/graphs/contributors) ## License [MIT](https://github.com/labstack/echo/blob/master/LICENSE)