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Echo

A fast and unfancy micro web framework for Go.

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Features

• Fast HTTP router which smartly prioritize routes.
• Run with standard HTTP server or FastHTTP server.
• Extensible middleware framework.
• Router groups with nesting.
• Handy functions to send variety of HTTP responses.
• Centralized HTTP error handling.
• Template rendering with any template engine.

Performance

Getting Started

Installation

$ go get github.com/labstack/echo

Hello, World!

Create main.go

package main

import (
	"net/http"

	"github.com/labstack/echo"
	"github.com/labstack/echo/engine/standard"
	"github.com/labstack/echo/middleware"
)

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

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

	// Middleware
	e.Use(middleware.Logger())
	e.Use(middleware.Recover())

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

	// Start server
	e.Run(standard.New(":1323"))
}

Start server

$ go run main.go

Browse to http://localhost:1323 and you should see Hello, World! on the page.

Next?

• Browse recipes
• 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