Siesta
Composable framework for writing HTTP handlers in Go. (by VividCortex)
Gin
Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin. (by gin-gonic)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Siesta
Posts with mentions or reviews of Siesta.
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and similar projects.
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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
Gin
Posts with mentions or reviews of Gin.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-08.
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How to Build and Document a Go REST API with Gin and Go-Swagger
Now let’s define the functions that will be called whenever a request hits our API. All the functions will be referencing the context provided by the Gin web framework. Paste the following code below the sample slice we just added to api.go:
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Password-less Login in Go from Scratch
We will be using Gorilla Mux. As per their last update, they have a new group of maintainers, and their repos have shown activity to confirm that. The tutorial can be easily replicated in any other framework or library as well. So, while we will be using Gorilla Mux, you can try to replicate it in Gin or Fiber as well.
- Autenticação com Golang e AWS Cognito
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Implementing JWT Authentication in a Golang Application
Now, let's dive into the fun part – creating our basic ToDo application using the powerful Gin framework. This section will walk you through the steps, breaking down the code into manageable snippets.
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Build a Serverless GenAI solution with Lambda, DynamoDB, LangChain and Amazon Bedrock
Thanks to the AWS Lambda Web Adapter, the application built as a (good old) REST/HTTP API using a familiar library (in this case, Gin.
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From Django or Flask to Sponge: How to Easily Develop High-Performance Web Services with Golang
Excellent Performance: Sponge is built on the gin framework, providing outstanding performance for web service development.
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Uploading and Serving Images from MongoDB in Golang
In this blog, we will delve into the fascinating realm of handling images in a Golang application, leveraging the power of the Gin framework for RESTful API development, MongoDB as a robust NoSQL database, and the mongo-driver library for seamless interaction with MongoDB. To store images efficiently, we'll explore the intricacies of GridFS, a specification within MongoDB for storing large files as separate chunks.
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Building RESTful API with Hexagonal Architecture in Go
It uses Gin as the HTTP framework and PostgreSQL as the database with pgx as the driver and Squirrel as the query builder. It also utilizes Redis as the caching layer with go-redis as the client.
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Different CORS settings for different paths?
I have created an application with Go in Gin-Gonic. In my frontend (Nuxt3/TypeScript) I always get a CORS error:
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Rapid Prototyping of Design-First APIs in Go
We use Gin web framework https://gin-gonic.com for the routing, Gin provides a balance between performance, ease of use and extensibility making it a preferred choice for building and running web applications in Go.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Siesta and Gin you can also consider the following projects:
render - Go package for easily rendering JSON, XML, binary data, and HTML templates responses.
Fiber - ⚡️ Express inspired web framework written in Go
web.go - The easiest way to create web applications with Go
mux - A powerful HTTP router and URL matcher for building Go web servers with 🦍
Iris - The fastest HTTP/2 Go Web Framework. New, modern and easy to learn. Fast development with Code you control. Unbeatable cost-performance ratio :rocket:
chi - lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services
Echo - High performance, minimalist Go web framework
Revel - A high productivity, full-stack web framework for the Go language.
Beego - beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for the Go programming language.