Ask HN: Framework building scalable (REST) API in GO

2 pointsyulrizka3 comments

Hi,

I'm currently thinking about learning GO to replace our REST API server. Is there any framework available to create REST API in go ? I'm searching for a framework that have great functionality to communicate with JSON and it would be great if test are part of the framework.

Or is it better to built it with basic functionalities that go provide ?

Thanks

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Could elaborate a bit more as to your needs. Lots of rest frameworks are scalable since they're all based on net/http. If you want more of a framework then just simple rest routing. Revel is very good. I currently use gorest in production and am very happy, I had problems though with using a custom sessions package though since it didn't export the responsewritter bit still very happy.

Sorry will provide links when I get home.

Revel - http://robfig.github.io/revel/ Gorest - https://code.google.com/p/gorest/

Hi Thanks for the links, I'll try to look them out.

I'm came from Rails and before that I've done some PHP. I don't have any idea on how people use GO for building high throughput API server. I would like to found out are people usually build the app from scratch or using some kind of a framework that provide some kind of ORM, Routing, Session Management etc.

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