chain vs alice

chain

Composable chains of nested http.Handler instances. (by codemodus)

Web Frameworks Libraries for creating HTTP middlewares

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alice

Painless middleware chaining for Go (by justinas)

Web Frameworks Libraries for creating HTTP middlewares Middleware Handler Go Web

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chain		alice
	Project
-	Mentions	3
63	Stars	2,976
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 5 years ago	Latest Commit	18 days ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	MIT License

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chain

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

alice

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Recommended http helper libraries
3 projects | /r/golang | 1 Jul 2022

May I suggest using this httprouter for router and this for middleware Alice
Crafting Middlewares In Go
1 project | dev.to | 3 Mar 2022

Alice is a go library that can be used to chain mulitple middleware functions and application handler together.
Web Development in Go: Middleware, Templating, Databases & Beyond
8 projects | dev.to | 27 Jan 2021

You can use a library like Alice to transform the above construct to a more readable form such as:

What are some alternatives?

When comparing chain and alice you can also consider the following projects:

render - Go package for easily rendering JSON, XML, binary data, and HTML templates responses.

negroni - Idiomatic HTTP Middleware for Golang

catena - gRPC interceptor catenation.

chi - lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services

interpose - Minimalist net/http middleware for golang

muxchain - Lightweight Middleware for net/http

httprouter - A high performance HTTP request router that scales well

httpware

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:

golax - Golax, a go implementation for the Lax framework.