Gin Web Framework

Gin is a web framework written in Go. It features a martini-like API with performance that is 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

Getting started

Prerequisites

• Go: any one of the three latest major releases (now version 1.16+ is required).

Getting Gin

With Go module support, simply add the following import

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

to your code, and then go [build|run|test] will automatically fetch the necessary dependencies.

Otherwise, run the following Go command to install the gin package:

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

Running Gin

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

package main

import (
  "net/http"

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

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

Learn more examples

Quick Start

Learn and practice more examples, please read the Gin Quick Start which includes API examples and builds tag.

Examples

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

Documentation

See API documentation and descriptions for package.

All documentation is available on the Gin website.

• English
• 简体中文
• 繁體中文
• 日本語
• Español
• 한국어
• Turkish
• Persian

Articles about Gin

A curated list of awesome Gin framework.

• Tutorial: Developing a RESTful API with Go and Gin

Benchmarks

Gin uses a custom version of HttpRouter, see all benchmarks details.

Benchmark name	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
BenchmarkGin_GithubAll	43550	27364 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkAce_GithubAll	40543	29670 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkAero_GithubAll	57632	20648 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkBear_GithubAll	9234	216179 ns/op	86448 B/op	943 allocs/op
BenchmarkBeego_GithubAll	7407	243496 ns/op	71456 B/op	609 allocs/op
BenchmarkBone_GithubAll	420	2922835 ns/op	720160 B/op	8620 allocs/op
BenchmarkChi_GithubAll	7620	238331 ns/op	87696 B/op	609 allocs/op
BenchmarkDenco_GithubAll	18355	64494 ns/op	20224 B/op	167 allocs/op
BenchmarkEcho_GithubAll	31251	38479 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkGocraftWeb_GithubAll	4117	300062 ns/op	131656 B/op	1686 allocs/op
BenchmarkGoji_GithubAll	3274	416158 ns/op	56112 B/op	334 allocs/op
BenchmarkGojiv2_GithubAll	1402	870518 ns/op	352720 B/op	4321 allocs/op
BenchmarkGoJsonRest_GithubAll	2976	401507 ns/op	134371 B/op	2737 allocs/op
BenchmarkGoRestful_GithubAll	410	2913158 ns/op	910144 B/op	2938 allocs/op
BenchmarkGorillaMux_GithubAll	346	3384987 ns/op	251650 B/op	1994 allocs/op
BenchmarkGowwwRouter_GithubAll	10000	143025 ns/op	72144 B/op	501 allocs/op
BenchmarkHttpRouter_GithubAll	55938	21360 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkHttpTreeMux_GithubAll	10000	153944 ns/op	65856 B/op	671 allocs/op
BenchmarkKocha_GithubAll	10000	106315 ns/op	23304 B/op	843 allocs/op
BenchmarkLARS_GithubAll	47779	25084 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
BenchmarkMacaron_GithubAll	3266	371907 ns/op	149409 B/op	1624 allocs/op
BenchmarkMartini_GithubAll	331	3444706 ns/op	226551 B/op	2325 allocs/op
BenchmarkPat_GithubAll	273	4381818 ns/op	1483152 B/op	26963 allocs/op
BenchmarkPossum_GithubAll	10000	164367 ns/op	84448 B/op	609 allocs/op
BenchmarkR2router_GithubAll	10000	160220 ns/op	77328 B/op	979 allocs/op
BenchmarkRivet_GithubAll	14625	82453 ns/op	16272 B/op	167 allocs/op
BenchmarkTango_GithubAll	6255	279611 ns/op	63826 B/op	1618 allocs/op
BenchmarkTigerTonic_GithubAll	2008	687874 ns/op	193856 B/op	4474 allocs/op
BenchmarkTraffic_GithubAll	355	3478508 ns/op	820744 B/op	14114 allocs/op
BenchmarkVulcan_GithubAll	6885	193333 ns/op	19894 B/op	609 allocs/op

• (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.

Users

Awesome project lists using Gin web framework.

• gorush: A push notification server written in Go.
• fnproject: The container native, cloud agnostic serverless platform.
• photoprism: Personal photo management powered by Go and Google TensorFlow.
• lura: Ultra performant API Gateway with middlewares.
• picfit: An image resizing server written in Go.
• dkron: Distributed, fault tolerant job scheduling system.

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.