What mux/router to use now a days?

• flow

  3 346 3.6 Go

  A delightfully tiny but powerful HTTP router for Go web applications (by alexedwards)

Flow: https://github.com/alexedwards/flow

• grrt

  1 5 4.1 Go

  GRRT (Go Request RouTer) is a direct replacement for gorilla/mux. It has built-in CORS, path variables and method based routing.

  

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• otelchi

  1 94 2.8 Go

  OpenTelemetry instrumentation for go-chi/chi

https://github.com/riandyrn/otelchi might work for you

• signoz

  310 16,886 9.9 TypeScript

  SigNoz is an open-source observability platform native to OpenTelemetry with logs, traces and metrics in a single application. An open-source alternative to DataDog, NewRelic, etc. 🔥 🖥. 👉 Open source Application Performance Monitoring (APM) & Observability tool

  

We use https://signoz.io/ easy to setup

• httprouter

  37 16,279 5.3 Go

  A high performance HTTP request router that scales well

For a simple web app, https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter

• gorilla-mux

  1 1 10.0 Go

  A fork of gorilla/mux, the powerful HTTP router and URL matcher for building Go web servers with 🦍

gorilla/mux is at least more battle-tested. I'd rather fork it myself, or evaluate a useful fork of it such as this one (if it seems well-maintained, I haven't done the leg-work).

• useful-forks.github.io

  4 1,135 5.0 JavaScript

  Improving GitHub's Forks list discoverability through automatic filtering. The project offers an online tool and a Chrome extension.

  

gorilla/mux is at least more battle-tested. I'd rather fork it myself, or evaluate a useful fork of it such as this one (if it seems well-maintained, I haven't done the leg-work).

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• waggy

  8 38 3.0 Go

  The dead simple, easy-to-use library for writing HTTP handlers and routers in Go that can be used in standard HTTP server environments or in WAGI (Web Assembly Gateway Interface) environments

For work, we’ve switched to Chi. For personal projects, I use a router I’ve been built and have been working on myself

• Fiber

  104 31,291 9.4 Go

  ⚡️ Express inspired web framework written in Go

  

I'm still using gorilla for projects that started off with gorilla, but for newer projects I've been moving towards fiber and I actually quite like it

• rootdown

  3 1 0.0 Go

  The internet demanded another Go router

There’s only one router named after a Beastie Boys song, so it’s pretty obvious which one to use. https://github.com/carlmjohnson/rootdown

• jwtauth

  2 514 5.9 Go

  JWT authentication middleware for Go HTTP services

  

It's difficult to assess their security response because it doesn't seem that they've had any CVEs. A different project by the go-chi maintainers, jwtauth, did have to address moving away from a vulnerable dependency, which took them almost 3 months to fix. So, not ideal - but jwtauth isn't as active or used anywhere near as much as chi itself, so doesn't necessarily reflect their responsiveness to a chi vulnerability.

• Gin

  152 75,469 8.5 Go

  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.

  

I found this article about someone who evaluated Gorilla Mux replacements and chose Chi, which may be helpful. FWIW I did some of my own investigation and I'm leaning towards Gin, since it's more performant which is a factor for my current usecase.

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