Supported Go versions

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

As of version 4.0.0, Echo is available as a Go module. Therefore a Go version capable of understanding /vN suffixed imports is required:

Any of these versions will allow you to import Echo as github.com/partialize/echo-slim/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

Installation

// go get github.com/partialize/echo-slim/{version}
go get github.com/partialize/echo-slim/v4

Example

package main

import (
  "net/http"

  "github.com/partialize/echo-slim/v4"
  "github.com/partialize/echo-slim/v4/middleware"
)

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

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

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

  // Routes
  r := middleware.NewRouter()
  r.GET("/", hello)
  
  e.Use(r.Routes)

  // Start server
  e.Logger.Fatal(e.Start(":1323"))
}

Third-party middlewares

Please send a PR to add your own library here.

Help

• Forum

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