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Top 3 Golang Web Frameworks In 2021

Golang is one of the most powerful and well-known tools used for writing APIs and web frameworks. Google "Go", otherwise known as Golan, orders a quick run of local code. It's amazing to launch several advances in programming by rethinking the specialists and software engineers from different sections. We can say that this is happening on the basis that the engineers thought it was easiest to use Go. It is always considered the best for web and mobile app development because it ranks highest among all web programming languages.

Top 3 Golang Web Frameworks in 2021:

1. Martini: Martini is said to be a low-profile framework, as it is a small community, but also known for its various unique things, such as injecting different datasets or working with different types of handlers. It is very active, and there are about twenty or more plugins that may also be the reason for the need for add-ons. It covers some principles of methods such as routing, dealing, etc., the main general techniques for creating middleware.

2. Buffalo: Buffalo is known for its fast app development services. This is the complete process of starting any project from scratch and providing an end-to-end tool for creating a web interface. Buffalo comes with a dev command that helps you directly test the transformations in front of you and rebuild your entire binary. It's more of an ecosystem used to create better application development.

3. Gorilla: Gorilla is the largest and longest running Go web framework. It can be small and maximum for any user. It's also the largest English-speaking community that comes with robust web socket features, so you can attach REST codes to endpoints by providing a third-party service like Pusher.

So, here are some web frameworks that you can use for the Golang language. Each structure has its own unique points that can only be found in them, but they are all the best. IF your developer is on the lookout, this is the place where you can find the best.

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Andrei Dascalu

And these are top 3 based on... what? They have some qualities, sure but what makes them better than all the others?

Buffalo is nice as an all-in-one goto solution. But it is actually built on Gorilla and the overhead of trying to do everything is visible. It wants to replicate Rails and I'm not sure that's a good thing, it's one of the slower Go frameworks (so I guess the replication works)

Gorilla is one of the oldest frameworks still around and it's basically a sort of standard. In both a good and a bad way. In a good way in the sense that it has inspired other projects that try to beat it and in a bad way in that the code is messy and often nonsensical given the way it's picked up all possible coding styles in Go history.

But there are others as well.

Gin is somewhat of a newer standard for microservice. Go kit may provide the tooling but I found that Gin has out of the box support around the microservice ecosystem. It's also fast.

Fiber v2 is pretty great in that it doesn't try to do too much. It's one of the fastest frameworks out there barring using plan routers and it has just enough tooling. It's inspired by Express and inherits most of the good things about it.

Echo framework isn't too bad either. It's not as popular as it deserves given how well organized it is. I guess it has the reputation of not being quite idiomatic and it's also not the fastest of the bunch but man, it's so damn well organized and logic that doing anything is a breeze even without reading the docs.

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Dennis

I entirely agree with this comment.

I don't think I would consider any of these frameworks, maybe with the exception being Gorilla. I don't see Gorilla as a framework, more than a library, though.

This article seems very biased/based, as well as based on very little experience with the frameworks/libraries.

The article does not hold any statistical and/or quantifiable data concerning likes, stars, adoption in Go community, how many are using it, benchmarks, anything.