Which framework should i use gin or echo or iris?

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I am creating a backend server with following functonalities:

  1. upload files
  2. call another url’s as well
  3. validations
  4. implement access rules
  5. localization
  6. Oauth
  7. sockets
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Any of those would work just fine. Which one do you prefer in terms of approach? There was also recently a discussion on the go sub about this exact topic that might be of use:

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Which one you will prefer in terms of simplicity and performance?

I hav been through gin and echo and I found both great.
But echo has great documentation and middleware support.

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I personally generally use stdlib + gorilla/mux or julienschmidt/httprouter. It doesn’t get much simpler than that and it has served me well. Gin has been around a long time and has great documentation. Echo also looks great and has a large user base and great documentation.

In general, performance will not be limited by your choice of web framework / router (unless they are poorly built). In my experience, you will spend most of your performance-tuning time on other things like data access. It doesn’t matter how many ns/op your router/framework is putting out when you have a query that takes 10 seconds to complete, or something like a memory leak. Many production apps have been built with both Gin and Echo; they aren’t going to limit your performance. Put a different way (by the venerable Donald Knuth):

The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.

You can build a performant API with either gin or echo. Pick your framework based on how much you want to work with it and run with it, unless you have a specific reason not to. Out of the two, I think Echo looks slightly more interesting to me. Which one do you prefer?

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@Dean_Davidson, Thanks for your detailed response. I really appreciate.
I think Echo is slightly better but i will get my hands dirty on both frameworks.
I just moved from nodejs to golang, Echo feels like more of express framework.

I am just choosing a framework because i don’t wanna do stuff from scratch.

This is never ending debate. I think i just have to pick one and start.
In some scenarios iris has its own advantages.

I have seen discussions regarding this, Usually developers go with stdlib with httprouter.

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I’m also using gorilla toolkit because of its simplicity :+1:

https://www.gorillatoolkit.org/

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Seems great, will definitely give it a try.

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This is never ending debate. I think i just have to pick one and start.

Exactly this. :slight_smile: Good luck!

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I would suggest echoing, it is easy to use.

Good luck!

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