Ask HN: What Go framework for web API are you using in production? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What Go framework for web API are you using in production?

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Post by richardknop » Thu, Sep 07, 2017, 2:44 PM UTC

Just standard library (net/http), no framework. Specific packages for specific tasks if needed (sqlx for database etc).

Re: Ask HN: What Go framework for web API are you using in production?

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Post by johnnycarcin » Thu, Sep 07, 2017, 2:45 PM UTC

taneltanel wrote: post #2

Using no frameworks at all, only https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter for routing.

Yes, this. One of the things I love about go is the stdlib capabilities. I try to avoid a lot of frameworks as there seems to be too much "magic" going on that you end up having to figure out when it comes time to troubleshoot. The HttpRouter is bare bones enough to understand and build on top of while still adding some value and helping avoid creating boilerplate code on your own.

Re: Ask HN: What Go framework for web API are you using in production?

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Post by wjh_ » Thu, Sep 07, 2017, 2:49 PM UTC

jstewartmobile wrote: post #4

https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin

Also using Gin, works really well.

Re: Ask HN: What Go framework for web API are you using in production?

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Post by hiepph » Thu, Sep 07, 2017, 2:50 PM UTC

Just a router is enough for me https://github.com/buaazp/fasthttprouter

Re: Ask HN: What Go framework for web API are you using in production?

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Post by tmaly » Thu, Sep 07, 2017, 2:51 PM UTC

I am using Gin for my food side project https://bestfoodnearme.com

at my day job in fintech I use the standard library and gorilla/mux

Re: Ask HN: What Go framework for web API are you using in production?

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Post by dblooman » Thu, Sep 07, 2017, 2:52 PM UTC

https://github.com/ant0ine/go-json-rest

Re: Ask HN: What Go framework for web API are you using in production?

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Post by jzelinskie » Thu, Sep 07, 2017, 2:53 PM UTC

bauerd wrote: post #18

taneltanel wrote: post #2

Using no frameworks at all, only https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter for routing.

How do you handle database schema migrations?

The best generic tool/library for migrations that I've found is https://github.com/remind101/migrate

We're using it in production on a few CoreOS projects.

Re: Ask HN: What Go framework for web API are you using in production?

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Post by barrongineer » Thu, Sep 07, 2017, 2:56 PM UTC

We've been pretty happy with https://gobuffalo.io so far. We're serving up a Vue.js app with it. We needed a single binary to deploy on a client's server with no external dependencies and buffalo fits the bill. It comes with a cli that runs webpack and does hot reloads on save. It also has a build command that will bundle all the assets up to shove in the binary.

Re: Ask HN: What Go framework for web API are you using in production?

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Post by nicpottier » Thu, Sep 07, 2017, 2:59 PM UTC

Chi gives us just enough while still adhering to all the Golang standards: https://github.com/go-chi/chi

Do augment it a bit here and there with other libraries.

Re: Ask HN: What Go framework for web API are you using in production?

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Post by aczerepinski » Thu, Sep 07, 2017, 3:04 PM UTC

bauerd wrote: post #18

taneltanel wrote: post #2

Using no frameworks at all, only https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter for routing.

How do you handle database schema migrations?

Migrations are a minor pain point for me. The libraries I've used don't support running (all) pending migrations; only those with a timestamp more recent than the previous one. This means we have to finesse the timestamps manually as migrations get merged into the main branch and deployed to various environments. As such, the value offered by the migration library is pretty minimal compared to just remembering to pipe a .sql file directly into the database. Hopefully there's a more robust option out there that I just haven't found yet.