▲ 2 ▼ xeon - a fast backend web framework in Go

• ▲ Adrian 2821 days ago ▼

  What are Xeon's advantages over net/http, which could also be described as "a fully-featured, fast HTTP/2 backend web framework written entirely in Go"? Is there any more documentation? The readme is just a giant code sample, and looking at the godocs... holy cow that Context interface is absolutely massive!

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• ▲ kenny 2821 days ago ▼

  I had this problem too in earlier iterations of apps/frameworks which attempted to rewrite the signature of handlers; I've come to believe that replacing the current signature is a mistake, because it is too tempting to load your context with everything you might possibly need (this one has around 20 methods). As soon as an interface hits > 4 methods or so you may as well specify a concrete type, because you're specifying so much behaviour that it's really tied to one particular implementation.  FWIW Buffalo has the same problem.

  
  

  net/http doesn't actually supply everything you need to build a full-stack website though - you need authn, authz, csrf, assets, view rendering and a few other things, you can certainly build a minimal backend with it, but you need more in order to build a website.
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• ▲ Aaron Smith 2807 days ago ▼

  Test reply

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• ▲ kenny 2822 days ago ▼

  Thanks for posting. I've shortened the title slightly and moved some text into the description.

  
  

  Where are you using this? What for? Any apps built with it? It's much easier to evaluate a framework like this when you see it in use, and impossible to know how useful it is until you do build a significant app with it.
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