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).
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- 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
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- Latest major version of Echo is
v5as of 2026-01-18.- See API_CHANGES_V5.md for public API changes between
v4andv5, notes on upgrading.
- See API_CHANGES_V5.md for public API changes between
- Echo
v4is supported with security* updates and bug fixes until 2026-12-31
See ROADMAP.md for where Echo is heading and the version support policy.
// go get github.com/labstack/echo/{version}
go get github.com/labstack/echo/v5Latest version of Echo supports last four Go major releases and might work with older versions.
package main
import (
"github.com/labstack/echo/v5""github.com/labstack/echo/v5/middleware""log/slog""net/http"
)
funcmain() {
// Echo instancee:=echo.New()
// Middlewaree.Use(middleware.RequestLogger()) // use the RequestLogger middleware with slog loggere.Use(middleware.Recover()) // recover panics as errors for proper error handling// Routese.GET("/", hello)
// Start serveriferr:=e.Start(":8080"); err!=nil {
slog.Error("failed to start server", "error", err)
}
}
// Handlerfunchello(c*echo.Context) error {
returnc.String(http.StatusOK, "Hello, World!")
}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 |
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.
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
- Vishal Rana (Author)
- Nitin Rana (Consultant)
- Roland Lammel (Maintainer)
- Martti T. (Maintainer)
- Pablo Andres Fuente (Maintainer)
- Contributors