Echo

Echo is a high-performance, minimalist, and extensible web framework for the Go programming language, designed for building RESTful APIs and microservices. It prioritizes speed, a low memory footprint, and a clean API, offering robust routing, middleware support, and data binding functionalities.

Key facts

First appeared: 2015
Category: web_framework
Problem solved: To provide Go developers with a performant, minimalist, and highly extensible web framework that simplified common web development tasks (routing, middleware, data binding, validation) beyond the standard library's `net/http` package, without incurring significant performance overhead.
Platforms: windows, linux, macos, web

Related technologies

Go (programming language)
GORM (ORM)
SQLX (database library)
Kubernetes
MySQL
MongoDB
React
Redis
Caddy (reverse proxy)
Vue.js
Nginx (reverse proxy)
PostgreSQL
Docker
Angular

Notable users

Various enterprise applications requiring high-throughput web services
Open-source projects building APIs in Go
Many startups and tech companies leveraging Go for backend services