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## Supported Go versions
As of version 4.0.0, Echo is available as a [Go module](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Modules).
Therefore a Go version capable of understanding /vN suffixed imports is required:
- 1.9.7+
- 1.10.3+
- 1.14+
Any of these versions will allow you to import Echo as `github.com/labstack/echo/v4` which is the recommended
way of using Echo going forward.
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
## 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](https://echo.labstack.com/guide)
### Installation
```sh
// go get github.com/labstack/echo/{version}
go get github.com/labstack/echo/v4
```
### Example
```go
package main
import (
"net/http"
"github.com/labstack/echo/v4"
"github.com/labstack/echo/v4/middleware"
)
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!")
}
```
## Help
- [Forum](https://github.com/labstack/echo/discussions)
- [Chat](https://gitter.im/labstack/echo)
## 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)