Frameworks Golang

RafaelGopher · September 26, 2016, 11:07am

Hi every one, what is the better framework to create service web with REST??

nstratos · September 26, 2016, 1:28pm

The language itself with net/http. Go was designed for this.

pieterlouw · September 29, 2016, 7:32am

LearnServerProgramming on Go wiki

RESTful JSON API in Go

Cesar_Alvarado_Perag · October 2, 2016, 6:05pm

I was working with https://gin-gonic.github.io/gin/

alkchr · October 3, 2016, 7:31am

Go was designed for this.

For what? For net/http package? Sounds… uhm, strange, doesn’t it?

nstratos · October 3, 2016, 3:54pm

Rafael asked about REST web services which is server software and Go was designed to write server software.

thewhitetulip · October 4, 2016, 4:29am

I do not think you really need a web framework.

github.com

thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textbook/blob/master/manuscript/8.0buildingAPI.md

#Building an API

API stands for Application Programming Interface, it is just an interface to the webapp. When we use a browser to access a web application, we interact in HTTP and get back HTML pages, which the browser will render for us. Let's say we want to interact with our web app to get some data out of it using a host programming language like Go or Python. We'd have to maintain cookies in Python, or write a python module as an extension of a browser to handle this scenario.

There is a simple way out of this, we equip our web application itself to interact with any host language which can talk in HTTP. This way developers can easily get access to our system, using valid credentials, of course.

Browser:

1. We send the username,password and get a cookie stored on our machine. 
1. We use the token in the cookie until it is valid to send HTTP requests.
1. The browser is responsible for rendering the HTML pages sent by the server.

API:

1. We send the username, password and get a token. 
1. We send this token in each of our request to the server

Typically we send the token in a custom HTTP header called token.

When we use a browser, the server stores our information as a session, when we send it a request, it is aware of our session. A web app typically uses cookies to store the session ID, which is used to identify the user. Such a server is called a stateful server.

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I have written a book to teach how to write webapps with net/http. I have also built a cli client based on the REST server.

Do let me know your thoughts on my book!

RafaelGopher · October 5, 2016, 2:13am

oh thank you, I’ll take a look

swaroopjayanthi · October 17, 2016, 2:08am

Hi,
You can try Gorilla rest framework http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/, I am working on this found very useful.

Thanks
Swaroop

jhngrant · October 17, 2016, 3:00pm

In addition to Gorilla, you might want to consider Chi:

It’s lightweight and works well with the new context package introduced in Go 1.7

geosoft1 · October 18, 2016, 5:39pm

a very short and comprehensive example.

TheMue · November 24, 2016, 9:51pm

I’m using this one: https://github.com/tideland/gorest (Tideland is my own label). Currently it is the base for a JWT authorized REST API to an application with microservices.

kdrazkiewicz · November 25, 2016, 10:16am

I recommend you Iris - http://iris-go.com.

christophberger · November 26, 2016, 7:35am

I think the point is that Go has net/http included, which is a great starting point for building Web servers and Web services without the need for frameworks or third-party libraries.

(On the other hand, third-party libraries help avoiding to reinvent the wheel.)

christophberger · November 26, 2016, 7:58am

I recommend you Iris - http://iris-go.com3.

Caveat emptor: The Iris project (or rather, the author of Iris) has gotten some bad press. (<-- Three separate links.)

EDIT:
I never used Iris, nor did I have any contact to the author. I am just forwarding what I came across. Use good judgement.

kinsn · November 26, 2016, 9:50am

Honestly I’ve gone a very long way (30k line enterprise app) with just gorilla mux. Everything else was taken from the standard library.

cristaloleg · November 27, 2016, 9:50am

@kdrazkiewicz https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/57w79c/why_you_really_should_stop_using_iris/

Vlad · November 27, 2016, 4:54pm

Take a look at Go Swagger. Amazing project: https://github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger

Rio_M · November 28, 2016, 10:14am

First application I created with beego. Second only without framework. Now I am working on new large application and I am using echo - https://echo.labstack.com/

system · February 26, 2017, 10:14am

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