handlers VS httprouter

Compare handlers vs httprouter and see what are their differences.

handlers

A collection of useful middleware for Go HTTP services & web applications πŸ›ƒ (by gorilla)

httprouter

A high performance HTTP request router that scales well (by julienschmidt)
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handlers

Posts with mentions or reviews of handlers. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-15.
  • Go Gin vs Echo Thoughts/ Opinions
    4 projects | /r/golang | 15 Jul 2022
    When you use a router that supports http.Handler you don't have to worry about maintaining special middleware for that library. There are so many well maintained middleware libraries for the http.Handler like https://github.com/gorilla/handlers
  • Noob here. Need recommendation for best REST API framework.
    12 projects | /r/golang | 19 Jul 2021
    To add to this, gorilla also offers some middleware. And its super easy to import your own and wrap it.
  • Go is not an easy language
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Feb 2021
    Study the generic reader/writer implementations in the io module. (On my system, those sources are in /usr/lib/go/src/io.) The io.Reader and io.Writer interfaces are very simple, but very powerful because of how they allow composition. A shell pipeline like `cat somefile.dat | base64 -d | gzip -d | jq .` can be quite directly translated into chained io.Readers and io.Writers.

    Another example of this is how HTTP middlewares chain together, see for example all the middlewares in https://github.com/gorilla/handlers. All of these exhibit one particular quality of idiomatic Go code: a preference for composition over inheritance.

    Another quality of idiomatic Go code is that concurrent algorithms prefer channels over locking mechanisms (unless the performance penalty of using channels is too severe). I don't have immediate examples coming to mind on this one though, since the use of channels and mutexes tends to be quite intertwined with the algorithm in question.

  • Securing a Go-Backed Scrappy Twitter API with Magic
    6 projects | dev.to | 20 Jan 2021
    gorilla/handlers

httprouter

Posts with mentions or reviews of httprouter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-26.
  • From Homemade HTTP Router to New ServeMux
    4 projects | dev.to | 26 Apr 2024
    Even third-party HTTP routers take conflict detection into consideration; for example, httprouter either matches one pattern or it doesn't. It is designed to become.
  • Authentication system using Golang and Sveltekit - Initialization and setup
    7 projects | dev.to | 2 Jun 2023
    Following the completion of the series β€” Secure and performant full-stack authentication system using rust (actix-web) and sveltekit and Secure and performant full-stack authentication system using Python (Django) and SvelteKit β€” I felt I should keep the streak by building an equivalent system in PURE go with very minimal external dependencies. We won't use any fancy web framework apart from httprouter and other basic dependencies including a database driver (pq), and redis client. As usual, we'll be using SvelteKit at the front end, favouring JSDoc instead of TypeScript. The combination is ecstatic!
  • Gin - HTTP web framework written in GO.
    3 projects | /r/engineering_stuff | 22 Apr 2023
    Gin is a web framework written in Go. It features a martini-like API with performance that is up to 40 times faster thanks to httprouter. If you need performance and good productivity, you will love Gin.
  • what's your recommended router? chi, mux, something else?
    7 projects | /r/golang | 10 Apr 2023
    But, if you care about speed take a look at httprouter. That's the one we're using in our company. It's fast but the biggest downsides for me are:
  • go-mir - a toolkit to develop RESTful API backend service like develop service of gRPC
    10 projects | /r/golang | 31 Mar 2023
    Mir is a toolkit to develop RESTful API backend service like develop service of gRPC. It adapt some HTTP framework sush as Gin, Chi, Hertz, Echo, Iris, Fiber, Macaron, Mux, httprouter。
  • Tools besides Go for a newbie
    36 projects | /r/golang | 26 Mar 2023
    IDE: use whatever make you productive. I personally use vscode. VCS: git, as golang communities use github heavily as base for many libraries. AFAIK Linter: use staticcheck for linting as it looks like mostly used linting tool in go, supported by many also. In Vscode it will be recommended once you install go plugin. Libraries/Framework: actually the standard libraries already included many things you need, decent enough for your day-to-day development cycles(e.g. `net/http`). But here are things for extra: - Struct fields validator: validator - Http server lib: chi router , httprouter , fasthttp (for non standard http implementations, but fast) - Web Framework: echo , gin , fiber , beego , etc - Http client lib: most already covered by stdlib(net/http), so you rarely need extra lib for this, but if you really need some are: resty - CLI: cobra - Config: godotenv , viper - DB Drivers: sqlx , postgre , sqlite , mysql - nosql: redis , mongodb , elasticsearch - ORM: gorm , entgo , sqlc(codegen) - JS Transpiler: gopherjs - GUI: fyne - grpc: grpc - logging: zerolog - test: testify , gomock , dockertest - and many others you can find here
  • shift: high-performance HTTP router for Go
    2 projects | /r/golang | 26 Mar 2023
    Also, you seemed to have copied the path.go from Julien Schmidt's httprouter without even thanking or mentioning it in the README, which I think is not a good attitude. Yes, httprouter is BSD-3-Clause licensed, but showing the people that you took the code from some respect, should be a absolute must, in my opinon.
  • What mux/router to use now a days?
    13 projects | /r/golang | 15 Mar 2023
    For a simple web app, https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter
  • Luciano Remes | Golang is π˜Όπ™‘π™’π™€π™¨π™© Perfect
    7 projects | /r/golang | 2 Jan 2023
    Take this as the high-performing router (I used this in an early demo for the company I worked for when we considered Golang). https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter/blob/34250257ea144905c752bfaae80d6885f190daf6/tree.go
  • Implemented a bench marker to compare Go's HTTP Router
    16 projects | dev.to | 20 Dec 2022
    The julienschmidt/go-http-routing-benchmark is the julienschmidt/httprouter, but maintenance seemed to have stopped in recent years, so I decided to create my own benchmarker and implement it. I decided to implement bench markers.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing handlers and httprouter you can also consider the following projects:

go-patterns - Curated list of Go design patterns, recipes and idioms

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.

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

schema - Package gorilla/schema fills a struct with form values.

mux - A powerful HTTP router and URL matcher for building Go web servers with 🦍

scrappy-twitter-api-server - Scrappy Twitter API is a Go-backend project that is secured by the Magic SDK. This Go server allows all users to READ tweets. However, to POST or DELETE tweets an access token is required. This access token can be generated via https://scrappy-twitter-api-client-xi.vercel.app/.

Echo - High performance, minimalist Go web framework

sessions - Package gorilla/sessions provides cookie and filesystem sessions and infrastructure for custom session backends.

fasthttp - Fast HTTP package for Go. Tuned for high performance. Zero memory allocations in hot paths. Up to 10x faster than net/http

ent - An entity framework for Go

Fiber - ⚑️ Express inspired web framework written in Go