Why to use the net http package for building web app

• mux

  86 17,948 2.6 Go

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

  

The only thing missing is a more dynamic router, and this is where we have the usefulness of being able to pick a small, focused library for it (e.g. gorilla/mux). The base package is also highly interoperable with middleware (e.g. rs/cors for managing CORS headers), so in most cases it is easier to just pick out the features you want and compose them on top of net/http (or write them yourself), rather than find a framework that does it all.

• CORS

  12 2,533 6.2 Go

  Go net/http configurable handler to handle CORS requests (by rs)

The only thing missing is a more dynamic router, and this is where we have the usefulness of being able to pick a small, focused library for it (e.g. gorilla/mux). The base package is also highly interoperable with middleware (e.g. rs/cors for managing CORS headers), so in most cases it is easier to just pick out the features you want and compose them on top of net/http (or write them yourself), rather than find a framework that does it all.

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