Goji: a web microframework for Go

This is going to sound a little dismissive, but I don&#x27;t mean it to be:<p>I&#x27;m not sure I understand the value that these frameworks offer beyond the HTTP server interface Golang supports out of the box, plus a URL router like &quot;pat&quot; (or whatever the cool kids are using now other than &quot;pat&quot;).<p>I see the clean middleware abstraction, but I find the idiomatic closure-based implementation of middleware adds only a couple extra lines of code, and in return I get total flexibility.<p>What&#x27;s this doing that I&#x27;m not seeing? I&#x27;m sure there&#x27;s something; I&#x27;m writing this comment out of ignorance.

It is good to have many web microframeworks in a language ecosystem. In Python probably there are a hundred of those. Many of those are not picked up by the community –a natural selection. Only really a few of those survived. It all depends on you if you are going to choose Revel, Martini, Goji or whatever you want. Today, thousands of apps run on web.py, yet most of the source code is untouched last 3-5 years (<a href="https://github.com/webpy/webpy/tree/master/web" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;webpy&#x2F;webpy&#x2F;tree&#x2F;master&#x2F;web</a>) It&#x27;s impressive it just works!<p>Personally, I am looking for frameworks that many people rely on, maintained frequently as needed and works just fine. There could be a +-10% difference on QPS those framework URL routers can handle and render a &#x27;hello world&#x27; page.<p>So this is a nice attempt I would say, looks cleaner than Martini, still supports middlewares. On the other hand, Martini has support to serve static files, logging, panic recovery, which are also good and has a bigger fanboy community around it: <a href="https://github.com/go-martini/martini" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;go-martini&#x2F;martini</a>

Perhaps this is not the best place for this question, but as a frequent HN reader, I&#x27;m constantly told that Go is great to develop in and very performant. However, it&#x27;s not clear to me how Go suits a web application with relational data.<p>From what I&#x27;ve gleaned, an ORM does not make sense in Go, so how would this type of application be approached? Writing a lot of ORM-type boiler-plate? A completely different way? Or is Golang a bad choice for such an application?

Looks very nice. I do appreciate having more clean, well thought out web frameworks in the Go space. Type switches for your handlers is a good way to approach the net&#x2F;http compatibility.<p>There are some people that find that Martini is a bit too magical for them, and that is completely okay. It&#x27;s great to see another minimal framework that will suit their needs.

About this part in README:<p>&gt; I have very little interest in boosting Goji&#x27;s router&#x27;s benchmark scores. There is an obvious solution here--radix trees--and maybe if I get bored I&#x27;ll implement one for Goji, but I think the API guarantees and conceptual simplicity Goji provides are more important (all routes are attempted, one after another, until a matching route is found). Even if I choose to optimize Goji&#x27;s router, Goji&#x27;s routing semantics will not change.<p>Maybe you can just use HttpRouter without reimplementing it yourself?<p><a href="https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;julienschmidt&#x2F;httprouter</a><p>&gt; The router is optimized for best performance and a small memory footprint. It scales well even with very long pathes and a large number of routes. A compressing dynamic trie (radix tree) structure is used for efficient matching.<p><pre><code> goji.Get(&quot;&#x2F;hello&#x2F;:name&quot;, hello) router := httprouter.New() router.GET(&quot;&#x2F;hello&#x2F;:name&quot;, Hello)</code></pre>

If you think you&#x27;re ready, it might be fun to submit a techempower benchmark.<p><a href="http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.techempower.com&#x2F;benchmarks&#x2F;</a>

I see why some would call Martini &quot;magic&quot; but I&#x27;m not entirely sure I prefer having to deal with a giant `map[string]inteface{}`. What you are really doing is moving the &quot;magic&quot; from the framework and onto the developer (I now have to do type checking and casting).<p>That said I&#x27;m a huge fan of Martini and I actually use codegangsta&#x27;s Inject in my other projects to manage shared state&#x2F;resources, so I am heavily partial to it.

Great job! It definitely feels like a microframework compared to others. I&#x27;m glad that there are so many starting points for Go web services available now of varying levels complexity. To me this feels like it fills the void between Gorilla and Revel&#x2F;Martini&#x2F;Beego. Also, the code is very well documented and easy to follow.

Every time I see a web framework for Go, I just want to see an example or two of a website developed with it. Does anybody have any solid examples?<p>Hopefully, like me, some others enjoy exploring existing code as well as reading the examples &#x2F; docs.

Call it nitpicking, but I would rather not export a symbol &#x27;C&#x27; from a library I write. Seriously, is &#x27;Context&#x27; that hard to type? And the author seems to be far from lazy, the codebase is nicely and extensively commented (it is a nice read indeed). Apart from this issue, the library seems quite nice.

Do we yet have the Django for Go? Goji is as said a microframework, what I want is an equivalent of Django.

A bit off-topic, but I love the site colors. I&#x27;d love that text theme for Atom if it&#x27;s available?

When I read things like &quot;func Get(pattern interface{}, handler interface{})&quot; I start questioning why this whole thing is ever written in Go at all? This kind of ditches half of Go&#x27;s benefits by moving all type checks to run time.

Just a quick look at the examples, and I can say that it reminds me very much of Clojure Ring. It provides really small and extensible core, and if the community pick it up and start writing useful middlewares, it can become very useful.

Were you inspired by this ? <a href="http://www.cherrypy.org/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cherrypy.org&#x2F;</a> The juxtaposition of things and colors and code simplicity looks like so

How does this compare with Martini?<p><a href="http://martini.codegangsta.io/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;martini.codegangsta.io&#x2F;</a>

I ain&#x27;t switching from Perl 5.8 to golang until a shared hosting provider becomes available.

Sorry for my ignorance, how is this different, better than Martini? What is the main goal of creating a new framework (instead of getting the features you are missing implemented in the currently existing ones)?