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Echo

Build simple and performant systems!

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Overview

Echo is a fast HTTP router (zero memory allocation) and micro web framework in Go.

Features

• Fast HTTP router which smartly resolves conflicting routes.
• Extensible middleware/handler, supports:
  • Middleware
    • func(*echo.Context)
    • func(*echo.Context) error
    • func(echo.HandlerFunc) echo.HandlerFunc
    • func(http.Handler) http.Handler
    • http.Handler
    • http.HandlerFunc
    • func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request)
    • func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) error
  • Handler
    • echo.HandlerFunc
    • func(*echo.Context) error
    • func(*echo.Context)
    • http.Handler
    • http.HandlerFunc
    • func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request)
    • func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request) error
• Sub routing with groups.
• Handy encoding/decoding functions.
• Serve static files, including index.
• Centralized HTTP error handling.
• Use a customized function to bind request body to a Go type.
• Register a view render so you can use any HTML template engine.

Getting Started

Installation

$ go get github.com/labstack/echo

###Hello, World!

Create server.go with the following content

package main

import (
	"net/http"

	"github.com/labstack/echo"
	mw "github.com/labstack/echo/middleware"
)

// Handler
func hello(c *echo.Context) {
	c.String(http.StatusOK, "Hello, World!\n")
}

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

	// Middleware
	e.Use(mw.Logger)

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

	// Start server
	e.Run(":4444")
}

echo.New() returns a new instance of Echo.

e.Use(mw.Logger) adds logging middleware to the chain. It logs every request made to the server, producing output

2015/04/25 12:15:20 GET / 200 7.544µs
2015/04/25 12:15:26 GET / 200 3.681µs
2015/04/25 12:15:29 GET / 200 5.434µs

e.Get("/", hello) Registers a GET route for path / with hello handler, so whenever server receives a request at /, hello handler is called.

In hello handler c.String(http.StatusOK, "Hello, World!\n") sends a text/plain response to the client with 200 status code.

e.Run(":4444") Starts HTTP server at network address :4444.

Now start the server using command

$ go run server.go

Browse to http://localhost:4444 and you should see Hello, World! on the page.

Next?

• Browse examples
• Head over to Guide

Contribute

Use issues for everything

• Report issues
• Discuss before sending pull request
• Suggest new features
• Improve/fix documentation

Credits

• Vishal Rana - Author
• Nitin Rana - Consultant
• Contributors

License

MIT