Go Web Frameworks

Gin

gin-gonic/gin

Popular

Fast, martini-like HTTP framework with radix-tree routing; the most popular Go web framework.

net/http

pkg.go.dev

Popular

Go's standard-library HTTP server; method and wildcard routing since Go 1.22 is enough for many services.

Echo

labstack/echo

Minimalist, high-performance framework with an extensible middleware set and data binding.

Fiber

gofiber/fiber

Express-inspired framework built on fasthttp; popular with developers coming from Node.js.

chi

go-chi/chi

Lightweight, idiomatic router fully compatible with net/http handlers and middleware.

Huma

danielgtaylor/huma

Rising

Router-agnostic framework for building OpenAPI 3.1 REST APIs from typed Go structs.

go-zero

zeromicro/go-zero

Microservice framework with code generation and built-in resilience (breakers, load shedding, rate limits).

Encore

encoredev/encore

Rising

Backend framework for TypeScript and Go with infrastructure-from-code, a Rust runtime and built-in tracing.

Gorilla Mux

gorilla/mux

Legacy

Classic request router; common in older codebases, largely superseded by the enhanced net/http mux.