goatte 🚀

goatte is a lightweight HTTP library for building web services in Go.
It's built on top of Go’s standard library and is inspired by net/http, django, and chi.
Thanks for checking it out.

No extra dependencies — just Go.
100% compatible with net/http.

Features

• Easy to use and learn

• Clean and simple routing

• Built-in support for middleware

• URL reversing (name your routes and look them up)

• Serve static files easily

• Organize routes with sub-routers

• 100% compatible with net/http

• Clean and minimal API

• Zero dependencies (only uses the Go standard library)

Installation

go get github.com/mochams/goatte@latest

Quick start

Create a web server with middleware, and a parameterized route:

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "log"
    "net/http"

    "github.com/mochams/goatte"
)

// Sample middleware that logs messages before and after the request is handled
var ExampleMiddleware = func(next http.HandlerFunc) http.HandlerFunc {
    return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
        fmt.Println("Before handler (middleware)")
        next.ServeHTTP(w, r)
        fmt.Println("After handler (middleware)")
    })
}

func main() {
    middleware := []goatte.Middleware{ExampleMiddleware}
    router := goatte.NewRouter("main", middleware...)

    // Also fine
    // router := goatte.NewRouter("main", ExampleMiddleware)

    router.Get("/users/{name}/", "user-detail", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
        fmt.Println("..Handling request in handler...")
        w.Write([]byte("Hello, " + r.PathValue("name")))
    })

    log.Println("Server listening on http://localhost:3000")
    log.Fatal(http.ListenAndServe(":3000", router))
}

Start the server

go run .

In a new shell, call the endpoint:

curl -i http://localhost:3000/users/goatte/

You should see this in the terminal running your server:

Before handler (middleware)
..Handling request in handler...
After handler (middleware)

And this in the response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
...

Hello, goatte%   

Examples

Looking for more examples?
Check out the examples/ folder for more examples

Contributing

Contributions are welcome!
If you have ideas, bug fixes, or improvements, feel free to open a pull request.

Acknowledgments

goatte is inspired by the simplicity of Go’s standard net/http, Chi’s routing, and the best ideas of Django framework.