7 alternatives to gin

gin-gonic/gin — Gin is a high-performance HTTP web framework written in Go. It provides a Martini-like API but with significantly better performance—up to 40 times faster—thanks to httprouter. Gin is designed for building REST APIs, web applications, and m (89,395 stars, MIT, integration, files, auth).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 55 licence-cleared components from gin-gonic/gin itself.

The alternatives in detail

• bagashiz/go-pos
  Simple RESTful Point of Sale (POS) Service API written in Go using Gin web framework, PostgreSQL database, and Redis cache. Proof of concept of implementing Hexagonal Architecture in Go.
  score 7.8/10 · MIT permissive · 353 stars · 53 components · search them
• dgraph-io/ristretto
  A high performance memory-bound Go cache
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 7,004 stars · 39 components · search them
• expressjs/express
  Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.
  score 6.0/10 · MIT permissive · 69,573 stars · 24 components · search them
• labstack/echo
  High performance, minimalist Go web framework
  score 4.9/10 · MIT permissive · 32,780 stars · 46 components · search them · alternatives
• gofr-dev/gofr
  An opinionated GoLang framework for accelerated microservice development. Built in support for databases and observability.
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 20,834 stars · 345 components · search them
• unetworking/uwebsockets
  Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications
  score 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 19,017 stars · 56 components · search them
• allegro/bigcache
  Efficient cache for gigabytes of data written in Go.
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 8,174 stars · 13 components · search them

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