mux

A powerful HTTP router and URL matcher for building Go web servers with 🦍 (by gorilla)

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  • Ian Lance Taylor of the Go Team Leaves Google
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 May 2025
    Very cool about the SEA feature, I haven't seen that before. Thanks for sharing that

    This is sort of the worst case comparison, but a hello world program in go is 1.5 MiB and the SEA node equivalent is 109 MiB. Obviously as your program becomes more complex that fixed overhead becomes less of an issue but I think it's still a useful comparison.

    For the packages, the thing I prefer even more so is writing an application with 0 dependencies at all. net/http, net/http/pprof, flag, pprof, etc are all built in and high quality and you can easily build clis/servers with them. Even a really full featured CLI builder package like cobra has just a few transitive deps and gorilla/mux has none: https://github.com/spf13/cobra/blob/main/go.sum https://github.com/gorilla/mux/blob/main/go.mod

    If I compare that with express.js or commander its a very different story (though, in fairness to commander, they all seem to be dev deps).

    I don't think it's bad per se to have deps, just a different culture. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43935067 kinda beat that horse already though

  • Rust Dependencies Scare Me
    23 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 May 2025
  • How I Vibe-Coded an App to Explore GitHub Topics and Trending Repositories
    7 projects | dev.to | 9 Mar 2025
    Given my experience with Go, I asked Claude 3.7 Sonnet to create all the backend API routes and logic using Go and the Gorilla Mux framework. πŸš€ This allowed me to leverage my existing knowledge and skills while still benefiting from the efficiency and accuracy of vibe coding.
  • Building a Go Application with Docker on AWS: Creating a RESTful Interface for Adding and Retrieving Items
    1 project | dev.to | 27 Oct 2024
  • File Uploads with HTMX and Golang
    3 projects | dev.to | 19 Aug 2024
    For routing, we will be using the Gorilla Mux routing library, but feel free to use any routing solution of your choice. We will also be using Google’s UUID library for Go to generate random names for our files when we upload them. This is a personal preference as you can generate file names in different ways.
  • HTMX + Go : Build a CRUD App with Golang and HTMX
    4 projects | dev.to | 15 Jul 2024
    We also need to install the Gorilla Mux Router which will be the routing library for our project. Run the two commands below at the root of your project to get these libraries installed into your project
  • From Homemade HTTP Router to New ServeMux
    4 projects | dev.to | 26 Apr 2024
    This is not a disproval, but gorilla/mux has comparatively poor benchmark results among popular (many stars) third-party HTTP routers. , used by many users.
  • How AuDHD traits have helped me get good at devrel
    1 project | dev.to | 14 Apr 2024
    This attention to detail also can mean that for key abstractions in a tool or framework, what concretely goes on doesn't go unexplained. For example, when I was learning Go for web development, my first stumbling block was understanding how interfaces worked, particularly http.Handler, which is key to doing web development with Go's powerful net/http package and the fits-like-a-glove package built on top of it, the Gorilla Mux router. My way of finding out how that worked, and seeing the elegance of that interface, was pretty unorthodox - I figured out how Handlers worked by looking directly at Go's source code (which also is a demonstration of Go's readability, if you're interested in joining the Gophers!). And coming out of that was my very first tech talk at in 2015, on learning Gorilla from its Node.js counterpart, Express.js!
  • Microservices Authentication and Authorization Using API Gateway
    3 projects | dev.to | 27 Feb 2024
    In this ApiGateway implementation, we've employed the Gorilla Mux router for enhanced route handling. Let's break down the key components:
  • The Gorilla web toolkit project is being revived, all repos are unarchived now
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jul 2023
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gorilla/mux is an open source project licensed under BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License which is an OSI approved license.

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