A fast, easy to use Rest API Framework implemented in Golang
Croissant was inspired by FastAPI. It aims to implement FastAPI features such as Request Body Parsing, Built in Documentation Handling, and lastly, (but definitely not the least) less code required.
I am aiming for > 90% test coverage of Croissant's source code. In addition to this, I also want Croissant to be completely type safe.
Croissant's performance is on par with API's created with Golang's standard lib - net/http. This is because, as of now, it is just a simple wrapper around the library. It is likely to decrease in speed once more features are added, and I will definitely try to reduce the impact.
You can see the programs used for comparison in the benchmarks directory.
My primary goal for Croissant is to reduce the code needed for API's written in Golang.
As of now, Croissant API's require more code than net/http. But remember, these values are taken from the benchmark programs, which only involve 1 route. In addition to this, Croissant doesn't provide much more than net/http at the moment. So these values are not suitable to compare with, and are more than likely to change in the future.
- Framework - The framework used while performing tests
- Code Length - Lines of code written, expressed with respect to Croissant (smaller is better)
- Time - Milliseconds taken to serve 1k requests, at 10 concurrent requests (Baton is used to test)
| Framework | Code Length | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Croissant | 1 | 40 |
| net/http | 0.8 | 35 |