Echo

High performance, extensible, minimalist Go web framework.

Echo is built on Go's standard net/http — and interoperates with it via echo.WrapHandler / echo.WrapMiddleware — adding the parts the standard library leaves to you: a fast radix-tree router, request binding (with a pluggable validator), a deep middleware ecosystem, and centralized error handling. Actively maintained, with v5 as the current release line (see badges above for the latest version and most recent commit).

• Official website
• Quick start
• Middlewares

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

Encore – the platform for building Go-based cloud backends

Click here for more information on sponsorship.

Guide

Supported Echo versions

• Latest major version of Echo is v5 as of 2026-01-18.
  • See API_CHANGES_V5.md for public API changes between v4 and v5, notes on upgrading.
• Echo v4 is supported with security* updates and bug fixes until 2026-12-31

See ROADMAP.md for where Echo is heading and the version support policy.

Installation

// go get github.com/labstack/echo/{version}
go get github.com/labstack/echo/v5

Latest version of Echo supports last four Go major releases and might work with older versions.

Example

package main

import (
  "github.com/labstack/echo/v5"
  "github.com/labstack/echo/v5/middleware"
  "log/slog"
  "net/http"
)

func main() {
  // Echo instance
  e := echo.New()

  // Middleware
  e.Use(middleware.RequestLogger()) // use the RequestLogger middleware with slog logger
  e.Use(middleware.Recover())       // recover panics as errors for proper error handling

  // Routes
  e.GET("/", hello)

  // Start server
  if err := e.Start(":8080"); err != nil {
    slog.Error("failed to start server", "error", err)
  }
}

// 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, pprof) middlewares
github.com/labstack/echo-opentelemetry	OpenTelemetry middleware for tracing and metrics
github.com/labstack/echo-prometheus	Prometheus middleware for Echo

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
oapi-codegen/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