Does Go have a widely used framework, or it's used without anything?

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  • Echo

    High performance, minimalist Go web framework

    There is Echo but if that's "widely used" is debatable I guess

  • mux

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

    Gorilla (17.4k stars, 1.6k forks): https://github.com/gorilla/mux

  • WorkOS

    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.

  • Buffalo

    Discontinued Rapid Web Development w/ Go

    There are larger frameworks in Go similar to Laravel. One I had a play with is called buffalo: https://gobuffalo.io/

  • Goyave

    🍐 Elegant Golang REST API Framework (v5 release candidate available)

    Goyave is not widespread but it's inspired by Laravel on some aspects. Try it out!

  • ent

    An entity framework for Go

    I can recommend https://entgo.io/ , ORM with graph semantics + GraphQL/REST/GRPC API generator

  • httprouter

    A high performance HTTP request router that scales well

    I'll check (and I extensively use) httprouter along the stdlib.

  • Fiber

    ⚡️ Express inspired web framework written in Go

    I recommend Fiber. Very flexible router. https://github.com/gofiber/fiber

  • InfluxDB

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  • 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.

  • beego

    beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for the Go programming language.

  • 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:

  • go-zero

    A cloud-native Go microservices framework with cli tool for productivity.

  • Laravel

    Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

    Laravel (71.1k stars, 23k forks): https://github.com/laravel/laravel

  • Django

    The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

  • Ruby on Rails

    Ruby on Rails

  • go-formatter

    A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software

  • go-micro

    simple go based microservice template (by willie68)

    https://github.com/willie68/go-micro (Just as a starting point...)

  • golang-standards/project-layout

    Standard Go Project Layout

  • confetti

    Confetti is a web application framework with an expressive, elegant syntax. This repository contains configuration files and is intended as a template for your codebase. Download these configuration files and include them in your git repository.

    There is this one: https://github.com/confetti-framework/confetti

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