Supported Go 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:

• 1.9.7+
• 1.10.3+
• 1.14+

Any of these versions will allow you to import Echo as github.com/labstack/echo/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/labstack/echo/{version}
go get github.com/labstack/echo/v4

Example

package main
import (
"net/http""github.com/labstack/echo/v4""github.com/labstack/echo/v4/middleware"
)
funcmain() {
// Echo instancee:=echo.New()
// Middlewaree.Use(middleware.Logger())
e.Use(middleware.Recover())
// Routese.GET("/", hello)
// Start servere.Logger.Fatal(e.Start(":1323"))
}
// Handlerfunchello(c echo.Context) error {
returnc.String(http.StatusOK, "Hello, World!")
}

Help

• Forum
• Chat

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
• Contributors

License

MIT