Go
Web frameworks and microservice toolkits for Go developers building high-performance backends
Key Considerations
- ✓ Performance benchmarks and overhead
- ✓ Middleware ecosystem
- ✓ Standard library compatibility
- ✓ Community size and maintenance
- ✓ Learning curve from net/http
Beego
An open-source, high-performance, modular, full-stack web framework for Go. Inspired by Tornado, Sinatra and Flask with Go-specific features.
Buffalo
Rapid web development in Go. Rails-like full-stack framework with generators, hot reload, and built-in tooling. Batteries included.
Chi
Lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services. 100% compatible with net/http. Minimal and elegant.
Echo
High performance, extensible, minimalist Go web framework. Optimized HTTP router with zero dynamic memory allocation.
Encore
Backend development platform for Go. Type-safe infrastructure from code. Automatic API docs, database provisioning, and cloud deployment.
Fiber
Express-inspired web framework built on Fasthttp. Designed for ease of use with zero memory allocation. Fastest Go framework benchmarks.
Gin
The fastest HTTP web framework in Go. Martini-like API with up to 40x faster performance. The most popular Go web framework.
Go Kit
A toolkit for microservices in Go. Provides guidance and tools for building production-ready distributed systems.
Gorilla Mux
A powerful HTTP router and URL matcher for building Go web servers. Implements http.Handler interface for seamless integration with Go's standard library.
httprouter
A lightweight high performance HTTP request router for Go. Zero garbage allocation routing with radix tree structure for maximum performance.
Iris
The fastest HTTP/2 Go Web Framework. Easy to learn, high performance, and feature-rich framework for building web applications with Go.
Kratos
A Go framework for microservices by Bilibili. Cloud-native with built-in service discovery, config management, and observability.
Revel
A flexible web framework for the Go language. Comprehensive platform for building web applications with hot code reload and full-stack features.