The best Go framework: no framework?
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The best Go framework: no framework?
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Re: The best Go framework: no framework?
#2Been writing Go for my own pet projects and some production side projects for two years. Often resorted to "small libraries" like Chi, or SQL query builders.
Since GitHub Copilot, I ditched SQL query builders as all the scanning and repetitive work is handled nearly immediately. I also ditched Chi and handle routing myself. Same for logging.
The issue is spending time doing things that took one line before with a framework (e.g., parsing URL path params). But it's actually satisfying.
Re: The best Go framework: no framework?
#3Go having a standard library that is so good for building simple services is what sets it aside from all the other languages that have come out in the last while in the same space. It has a great collection of community libraries but I so rarely need to fall back to them as I can usually cobble together whatever I need to pretty easily just using the standard library.
It makes it easy to get started on a project as there is no time i need to spend thinking about the tools im going to use, its just provided all of them for me, in mostly high quality, relatively easy to use implementations of most basic things.
Re: The best Go framework: no framework?
#4I dislike frameworks and prefer to avoid any dependency but the standard library, but coming from PHP, learning to write web apps in Go feels like being expected to write your own web server. Not sure how I feel about it yet.
Re: The best Go framework: no framework?
#5Echoes back to Three fallacies of dependencies by Blake Mizerany
https://www.dotconferences.com/2014/10/blake-mizerany-three-...
Of course the only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths, so no point of being dogmatic to the extreme.
Still, with experience I came to realise that dependencies carry their own weight, which has to be balanced with the weight of bespoke implementation (which can span the whole spectrum from "obviously" to "NIH")
Re: The best Go framework: no framework?
#6Same old topic.
I use gin. It's not perfect, especially streaming (EventSource) is broken. But the rest has actual hand on solutions.
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Re: The best Go framework: no framework?
#7Been writing Go for my own pet projects and some production side projects for two years. Often resorted to "small libraries" like Chi, or SQL query builders. Since GitHub Copilot, I ditched SQL query builders as all the scanning and repetitive work is handled nearly immediately. I also ditched Chi and handle routing myself. Same for logging. The issue is spending time doing things that took one line before with a fra…
What does a typical handler look like in this scenario (url path params). I usually end up using Gorilla mux for this, but standard library for everything else.
Re: The best Go framework: no framework?
#8This is one of the better things about Go and its community: eschewing frameworks like this.
Having an ecosystem of in-house libraries tailored to your products' use cases is not the same as developing an "ad-hoc framework". Where I work, we have several languages deployed in our fleet of microservices. A couple have frameworks, and these frameworks are "try to do it all" types, complete with dependency injection and layer upon layer of abstraction intended to help engineers avoid "needless" boilerplate or what have you. They're slow and difficult to debug/troubleshoot for any case that isn't anticipated by the frameworks, and even sometimes then. No, thank you.
Microservice architecture has its own problems, but these problems tend to be easier to reason about than the services themselves that use the frameworks.
Re: The best Go framework: no framework?
#9Was that just nearly 2,000 words and not a single fragment of Go in a post about Go?
Re: The best Go framework: no framework?
#10For junior developers reading this: frameworks are great, learn to love them, they will save you much time and stress when shipping real products.