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1. Echo

   1 138 32,445 8.8 Go

   High performance, minimalist Go web framework

   

   Project mention: Go Web Frameworks in Production: Performance Benchmarks and Real-World Trade-offs | dev.to | 2026-03-19

   Echo is a high-performance web framework that strikes an excellent balance between performance and features. It supports HTTP/2 out of the box and provides flexible middleware options.

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3. Iris

   2 21 25,584 5.9 Go

   The fastest HTTP/2 Go Web Framework. New, modern and easy to learn. Fast development with Code you control. Unbeatable cost-performance ratio :rocket:

   

4. gotty

   3 21 19,455 0.0 Go

   Share your terminal as a web application

   

   Project mention: Advent of Sysadmin 2025 | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-30

   We used to run terminal in browser using https://github.com/yudai/gotty and the entire dev team remapped their Ctrl+w to Ctrl+`. We did frontend and backend development with this setup almost for 1.5 years. Muscles memory and till this date, always have the fear if my actual terminal will get closed if I use Ctlr+w :P

5. Centrifugo

   4 35 10,387 8.7 Go

   Scalable real-time messaging server in a language-agnostic way. Self-hosted alternative to Pubnub, Pusher, Ably, socket.io, Phoenix.PubSub, SignalR. Set up once and forever.

   

6. gost

   5 3 6,955 8.3 Go

   GO Simple Tunnel - a simple tunnel written in golang (by go-gost)

   

7. ws

   6 14 6,467 3.7 Go

   A tiny WebSocket library for Go. (by gobwas)

   

8. Mercure

   7 25 5,264 9.0 Go

   🪽 An open, easy, fast, reliable and battery-efficient solution for real-time communications

   

   Project mention: FastCGI: 30 Years Old and Still the Better Protocol for Reverse Proxies | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-29

   That can be used with https://mercure.rocks :)

9. websocket

   8 18 5,283 5.3 Go

   Minimal and idiomatic WebSocket library for Go (by coder)

   

   Project mention: aria - Event Driven websocket framework | dev.to | 2025-08-26

   Aria is a lightweight, event-driven WebSocket framework for Go. It is inspired by olahol/melody and built on top of coder/websocket.

10. goflyway

    9 1 4,293 0.0 Go

    An encrypted HTTP server

    

11. melody

    10 5 4,080 4.1 Go

    :notes: Minimalist websocket framework for Go (by olahol)

    

    Project mention: aria - Event Driven websocket framework | dev.to | 2025-08-26

    Aria is a lightweight, event-driven WebSocket framework for Go. It is inspired by olahol/melody and built on top of coder/websocket.

12. glider

    11 1 3,670 6.0 Go

    glider is a forward proxy with multiple protocols support, and also a dns/dhcp server with ipset management features(like dnsmasq). (by nadoo)

    

13. goclaw

    12 3 3,248 9.9 Go

    GoClaw - GoClaw is OpenClaw rebuilt in Go — with multi-tenant isolation, 5-layer security, and native concurrency. Deploy AI agent teams at scale without compromising on safety.

    

    Project mention: 🔮 Hermes Agent 🤖: The Self-Improving Agent Framework — and How It Compares to OpenClaw & GoClaw 📊 | dev.to | 2026-05-18

    ⚔️ How it compares with two adjacent open-source projects: OpenClaw and GoClaw — when to pick which

14. httpexpect

    13 4 2,721 7.5 Go

    End-to-end HTTP and REST API testing for Go.

    

15. monibuca

    14 1 2,386 9.5 Go

    🧩 Monibuca is a Modularized, Extensible framework for building Streaming Server

    

16. AnyCable

    15 13 2,334 9.1 Go

    Realtime server for reliable two-way communication to power-up any backend

    

17. go-streams

    16 9 2,171 5.0 Go

    A lightweight stream processing library for Go

    

18. gws

    17 2 1,778 3.6 Go

    simple, fast, reliable websocket server & client, supports running over tcp/kcp/unix domain socket. keywords: ws, proxy, chat, go, golang...

    

19. gev

    18 1 1,776 1.9 Go

    🚀Gev is a lightweight, fast non-blocking TCP network library / websocket server based on Reactor mode. Support custom protocols to quickly and easily build high-performance servers.

    

20. beaver

    19 8 1,580 0.0 Go

    💨 A real time messaging system to build a scalable in-app notifications, multiplayer games, chat apps in web and mobile apps.

    

21. centrifuge

    20 14 1,436 8.3 Go

    Real-time messaging library for Go. The simplest way to add feature-rich and scalable WebSocket support to your application. The core of Centrifugo server.

    

22. gosumemory

    21 31 733 6.4 Go

    Cross-Platform memory reader for osu!

    

23. neffos

    22 1 631 2.6 Go

    A modern, fast and scalable websocket framework with elegant API written in Go

    

24. spacewave

    23 10 576 9.1 Go

    self-host directly in the web browser, no servers required. local-first

    

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