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Supported Go versions

As of version 4.0.0, Echo is available as a Go module. Therefore a Go version capable of understanding /vN suffixed imports is required:

• 1.9.7+
• 1.10.3+
• 1.11+

Any of these versions will allow you to import Echo as github.com/labstack/echo/v4 which is the recommended way of using Echo going forward.

For older versions, please use the latest v3 tag.

Feature Overview

• Optimized HTTP router which smartly prioritize routes
• Build robust and scalable RESTful APIs
• Group APIs
• Extensible middleware framework
• Define middleware at root, group or route level
• Data binding for JSON, XML and form payload
• Handy functions to send variety of HTTP responses
• Centralized HTTP error handling
• Template rendering with any template engine
• Define your format for the logger
• Highly customizable
• Automatic TLS via Let’s Encrypt
• HTTP/2 support

Benchmarks

Date: 2018/03/15
Source: https://github.com/vishr/web-framework-benchmark
Lower is better!

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Guide

Example

package main

import (
  "net/http"
  "github.com/labstack/echo/v4"
  "github.com/labstack/echo/v4/middleware"
)

func main() {
  // Echo instance
  e := echo.New()

  // Middleware
  e.Use(middleware.Logger())
  e.Use(middleware.Recover())

  // Routes
  e.GET("/", hello)

  // Start server
  e.Logger.Fatal(e.Start(":1323"))
}

// Handler
func hello(c echo.Context) error {
  return c.String(http.StatusOK, "Hello, World!")
}

Help

• Forum
• Chat

Contribute

Use issues for everything

• For a small change, just send a PR.
• For bigger changes open an issue for discussion before sending a PR.
• PR should have:
• Test case
• Documentation
• Example (If it makes sense)
• You can also contribute by:
• Reporting issues
• Suggesting new features or enhancements
• Improve/fix documentation

Credits

• Vishal Rana - Author
• Nitin Rana - Consultant
• Contributors

License

MIT