▲ 3 ▼ Top 6 web frameworks for go as of 2017

medium.com posted by Edward 2349 days ago

Don't know which Go web framework to chose?

Read the article above and go through the most complete Go web framework comparison as of today.

▲ kenny 2348 days ago ▼

I’d disagree that this is complete or comprehensive. Have you had a lot of experience using all of these frameworks?

I also strongly disagree with rating them by github stars which are not related to quality. If you’re going to judge popularity at least do it based on no of real-world projects using it, not internet points.

A grid of features is ok if the features are ones everyone would use, but these are not - the view engines lines for example in this feature chart I find baffling - no-one needs that much choice, and most of those alternatives are not interesting for most. Also ‘Sinatra like api’ is pretty bizarre as a feature bullet, as is MVC - these are design choices, not features. No of examples produced has little to do with ease of use, if anything it points to problems.

Re gorilla etc not being full frameworks- I feel this is rather arbitrary and undermines your argument. If their lack of features is so damning, perhaps the comparison should bear that out? Lack of features is often a bonus, but a minus.

In conclusion, while I think the attempt to provide an overview is an admirable one, this article does not succeed and should focus on the essentials instead - how easy was it to build a simple crud app in each for example? What are the design goals and trade offs if each framework? That information is more useful for those using them for real work.

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▲ lolly 2349 days ago ▼

Gorilla is missing.

Also github stars are not a good measure, they probably inversely relate to quality if anything.

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▲ iris-go 2349 days ago ▼

I assume that is missing because Gorilla is not a framework. It's just a router, a good one (although slow) but just that.

Also I agree on your comment about popularity, iris has only 8k stars while, hope that you will agree with me, it should be more popular from gin or echo for example, because of the features and the performance.

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▲ kenny 2348 days ago ▼

Gorilla is not just a router, it has a set of packages covering most of what you’d need in a web app. I think it’s a better example than most of the frameworks in this list.

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▲ Edward 2349 days ago ▼

Also you can check the article directly on github: https://github.com/speedwheel/awesome-go-web-frameworks/

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