Gin Web Framework

Gin is a web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a martini-like API with much better performance, up to 40 times faster thanks to httprouter. If you need performance and good productivity, you will love Gin.

The key features of Gin are:

• Zero allocation router
• Fast
• Middleware support
• Crash-free
• JSON validation
• Routes grouping
• Error management
• Rendering built-in
• Extendable

For more feature details, please see the Gin website introduction.

Getting started

Getting Gin

The first need Go installed (version 1.6+ is required), then you can use the below Go command to install Gin.

$ go get -u github.com/gin-gonic/gin

For more installation guides such as vendor tool, please check out Gin quickstart.

Running Gin

First you need to import Gin package for using Gin, one simplest example likes the follow example.go:

package main

import "github.com/gin-gonic/gin"

func main() {
	r := gin.Default()
	r.GET("/ping", func(c *gin.Context) {
		c.JSON(200, gin.H{
			"message": "pong",
		})
	})
	r.Run() // listen and serve on 0.0.0.0:8080
}

And use the Go command to run the demo:

# run example.go and visit 0.0.0.0:8080/ping on browser
$ go run example.go

Benchmarks

Please see all benchmarks details from Gin website.

Benchmark name	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
BenchmarkGin_GithubAll	30000	48375	0	0
BenchmarkAce_GithubAll	10000	134059	13792	167
BenchmarkBear_GithubAll	5000	534445	86448	943
BenchmarkBeego_GithubAll	3000	592444	74705	812
BenchmarkBone_GithubAll	200	6957308	698784	8453
BenchmarkDenco_GithubAll	10000	158819	20224	167
BenchmarkEcho_GithubAll	10000	154700	6496	203
BenchmarkGocraftWeb_GithubAll	3000	570806	131656	1686
BenchmarkGoji_GithubAll	2000	818034	56112	334
BenchmarkGojiv2_GithubAll	2000	1213973	274768	3712
BenchmarkGoJsonRest_GithubAll	2000	785796	134371	2737
BenchmarkGoRestful_GithubAll	300	5238188	689672	4519
BenchmarkGorillaMux_GithubAll	100	10257726	211840	2272
BenchmarkHttpRouter_GithubAll	20000	105414	13792	167
BenchmarkHttpTreeMux_GithubAll	10000	319934	65856	671
BenchmarkKocha_GithubAll	10000	209442	23304	843
BenchmarkLARS_GithubAll	20000	62565	0	0
BenchmarkMacaron_GithubAll	2000	1161270	204194	2000
BenchmarkMartini_GithubAll	200	9991713	226549	2325
BenchmarkPat_GithubAll	200	5590793	1499568	27435
BenchmarkPossum_GithubAll	10000	319768	84448	609
BenchmarkR2router_GithubAll	10000	305134	77328	979
BenchmarkRivet_GithubAll	10000	132134	16272	167
BenchmarkTango_GithubAll	3000	552754	63826	1618
BenchmarkTigerTonic_GithubAll	1000	1439483	239104	5374
BenchmarkTraffic_GithubAll	100	11383067	2659329	21848
BenchmarkVulcan_GithubAll	5000	394253	19894	609

• (1): Total Repetitions achieved in constant time, higher means more confident result
• (2): Single Repetition Duration (ns/op), lower is better
• (3): Heap Memory (B/op), lower is better
• (4): Average Allocations per Repetition (allocs/op), lower is better

Middlewares

You can find many useful Gin middlewares at gin-contrib.

Documentation

All documentation is available on the Gin website.

• English
• 简体中文
• 繁體中文
• 日本語

Examples

A number of ready-to-run examples demonstrating various use cases of Gin on the Gin examples repository.

Users

Gin website lists some awesome projects made with Gin web framework.

Contributing

Gin is the work of hundreds of contributors. We appreciate your help!

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details on submitting patches and the contribution workflow.