Fiber is an Express inspired web framework built on top of Fasthttp, the fastest HTTP engine for Go. Designed to ease things up for fast development with zero memory allocation and performance in mind.
⚡️ Quickstart
package main
import "github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2"
func main() {
app := fiber.New()
app.Get("/", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
return c.SendString("Hello, World 👋!")
})
app.Listen(":3000")
}
🤖 Benchmarks
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⚙️ Installation
Make sure you have Go installed (download). Version 1.14
or higher is required.
Initialize your project by creating a folder and then running go mod init github.com/your/repo
(learn more) inside the folder. Then install Fiber with the go get
command:
go get -u github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2
🎯 Features
- Robust routing
- Serve static files
- Extreme performance
- Low memory footprint
- API endpoints
- Middleware & Next support
- Rapid server-side programming
- Template engines
- WebSocket support
- Server-Sent events
- Rate Limiter
- Translated in 15 languages
- And much more, explore Fiber
💡 Philosophy
New gophers that make the switch from Node.js to Go are dealing with a learning curve before they can start building their web applications or microservices. Fiber, as a web framework, was created with the idea of minimalism and follows the UNIX way, so that new gophers can quickly enter the world of Go with a warm and trusted welcome.
Fiber is inspired by Express, the most popular web framework on the Internet. We combined the ease of Express and raw performance of Go. If you have ever implemented a web application in Node.js (using Express or similar), then many methods and principles will seem very common to you.
We listen to our users in issues, Discord channel and all over the Internet to create a fast, flexible and friendly Go web framework for any task, deadline and developer skill! Just like Express does in the JavaScript world.
⚠️ Limitations
- Due to Fiber's usage of unsafe, the library may not always be compatible with the latest Go version. Fiber 2.18.0 has been tested with Go versions 1.14 to 1.17.
- Fiber is not compatible with net/http interfaces. This means you will not be able to use projects like gqlgen, go-swagger, or any others which are part of the net/http ecosystem.
👀 Examples
Listed below are some of the common examples. If you want to see more code examples , please visit our Recipes repository or visit our hosted API documentation.
Basic Routing
📖func main() {
app := fiber.New()
// GET /api/register
app.Get("/api/*", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
msg := fmt.Sprintf("✋ %s", c.Params("*"))
return c.SendString(msg) // => ✋ register
})
// GET /flights/LAX-SFO
app.Get("/flights/:from-:to", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
msg := fmt.Sprintf("💸 From: %s, To: %s", c.Params("from"), c.Params("to"))
return c.SendString(msg) // => 💸 From: LAX, To: SFO
})
// GET /dictionary.txt
app.Get("/:file.:ext", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
msg := fmt.Sprintf("📃 %s.%s", c.Params("file"), c.Params("ext"))
return c.SendString(msg) // => 📃 dictionary.txt
})
// GET /john/75
app.Get("/:name/:age/:gender?", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
msg := fmt.Sprintf("👴 %s is %s years old", c.Params("name"), c.Params("age"))
return c.SendString(msg) // => 👴 john is 75 years old
})
// GET /john
app.Get("/:name", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
msg := fmt.Sprintf("Hello, %s 👋!", c.Params("name"))
return c.SendString(msg) // => Hello john 👋!
})
log.Fatal(app.Listen(":3000"))
}
Route Naming
📖func main() {
app := fiber.New()
// GET /api/register
app.Get("/api/*", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
msg := fmt.Sprintf("✋ %s", c.Params("*"))
return c.SendString(msg) // => ✋ register
}).Name("api")
data, _ := json.MarshalIndent(app.GetRoute("api"), "", " ")
fmt.Print(string(data))
// Prints:
// {
// "method": "GET",
// "name": "api",
// "path": "/api/*",
// "params": [
// "*1"
// ]
// }
log.Fatal(app.Listen(":3000"))
}
Serving Static Files
📖func main() {
app := fiber.New()
app.Static("/", "./public")
// => http://localhost:3000/js/script.js
// => http://localhost:3000/css/style.css
app.Static("/prefix", "./public")
// => http://localhost:3000/prefix/js/script.js
// => http://localhost:3000/prefix/css/style.css
app.Static("*", "./public/index.html")
// => http://localhost:3000/any/path/shows/index/html
log.Fatal(app.Listen(":3000"))
}
Middleware & Next
📖func main() {
app := fiber.New()
// Match any route
app.Use(func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
fmt.Println("🥇 First handler")
return c.Next()
})
// Match all routes starting with /api
app.Use("/api", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
fmt.Println("🥈 Second handler")
return c.Next()
})
// GET /api/list
app.Get("/api/list", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
fmt.Println("🥉 Last handler")
return c.SendString("Hello, World 👋!")
})
log.Fatal(app.Listen(":3000"))
}
📚 Show more code examples
Views engines
Fiber defaults to the html/template when no view engine is set.
If you want to execute partials or use a different engine like amber, handlebars, mustache or pug etc..
Checkout our Template package that support multiple view engines.
package main
import (
"github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2"
"github.com/gofiber/template/pug"
)
func main() {
// You can setup Views engine before initiation app:
app := fiber.New(fiber.Config{
Views: pug.New("./views", ".pug"),
})
// And now, you can call template `./views/home.pug` like this:
app.Get("/", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
return c.Render("home", fiber.Map{
"title": "Homepage",
"year": 1999,
})
})
log.Fatal(app.Listen(":3000"))
}
Grouping routes into chains
📖 Group
func middleware(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
fmt.Println("Don't mind me!")
return c.Next()
}
func handler(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
return c.SendString(c.Path())
}
func main() {
app := fiber.New()
// Root API route
api := app.Group("/api", middleware) // /api
// API v1 routes
v1 := api.Group("/v1", middleware) // /api/v1
v1.Get("/list", handler) // /api/v1/list
v1.Get("/user", handler) // /api/v1/user
// API v2 routes
v2 := api.Group("/v2", middleware) // /api/v2
v2.Get("/list", handler) // /api/v2/list
v2.Get("/user", handler) // /api/v2/user
// ...
}
Middleware logger
📖 Logger
package main
import (
"log"
"github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2"
"github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2/middleware/logger"
)
func main() {
app := fiber.New()
app.Use(logger.New())
// ...
log.Fatal(app.Listen(":3000"))
}
Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
📖 CORS
import (
"log"
"github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2"
"github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2/middleware/cors"
)
func main() {
app := fiber.New()
app.Use(cors.New())
// ...
log.Fatal(app.Listen(":3000"))
}
Check CORS by passing any domain in Origin
header:
curl -H "Origin: http://example.com" --verbose http://localhost:3000
Custom 404 response
func main() {
app := fiber.New()
app.Static("/", "./public")
app.Get("/demo", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
return c.SendString("This is a demo!")
})
app.Post("/register", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
return c.SendString("Welcome!")
})
// Last middleware to match anything
app.Use(func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
return c.SendStatus(404)
// => 404 "Not Found"
})
log.Fatal(app.Listen(":3000"))
}
JSON Response
📖 JSON
type User struct {
Name string `json:"name"`
Age int `json:"age"`
}
func main() {
app := fiber.New()
app.Get("/user", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
return c.JSON(&User{"John", 20})
// => {"name":"John", "age":20}
})
app.Get("/json", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
return c.JSON(fiber.Map{
"success": true,
"message": "Hi John!",
})
// => {"success":true, "message":"Hi John!"}
})
log.Fatal(app.Listen(":3000"))
}
WebSocket Upgrade
import (
"github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2"
"github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2/middleware/websocket"
)
func main() {
app := fiber.New()
app.Get("/ws", websocket.New(func(c *websocket.Conn) {
for {
mt, msg, err := c.ReadMessage()
if err != nil {
log.Println("read:", err)
break
}
log.Printf("recv: %s", msg)
err = c.WriteMessage(mt, msg)
if err != nil {
log.Println("write:", err)
break
}
}
}))
log.Fatal(app.Listen(":3000"))
// ws://localhost:3000/ws
}
Server-Sent Events
import (
"github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2"
"github.com/valyala/fasthttp"
)
func main() {
app := fiber.New()
app.Get("/sse", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
c.Set("Content-Type", "text/event-stream")
c.Set("Cache-Control", "no-cache")
c.Set("Connection", "keep-alive")
c.Set("Transfer-Encoding", "chunked")
c.Context().SetBodyStreamWriter(fasthttp.StreamWriter(func(w *bufio.Writer) {
fmt.Println("WRITER")
var i int
for {
i++
msg := fmt.Sprintf("%d - the time is %v", i, time.Now())
fmt.Fprintf(w, "data: Message: %s\n\n", msg)
fmt.Println(msg)
w.Flush()
time.Sleep(5 * time.Second)
}
}))
return nil
})
log.Fatal(app.Listen(":3000"))
}
Recover middleware
📖 Recover
import (
"github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2"
"github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2/middleware/recover"
)
func main() {
app := fiber.New()
app.Use(recover.New())
app.Get("/", func(c *fiber.Ctx) error {
panic("normally this would crash your app")
})
log.Fatal(app.Listen(":3000"))
}
Using Trusted Proxy
📖 Config
import (
"github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2"
"github.com/gofiber/fiber/v2/middleware/recover"
)
func main() {
app := fiber.New(fiber.Config{
EnableTrustedProxyCheck: true,
TrustedProxies: []string{"0.0.0.0", "1.1.1.1/30"}, // IP address or IP address range
ProxyHeader: fiber.HeaderXForwardedFor},
})
// ...
log.Fatal(app.Listen(":3000"))
}
🧬 Internal Middleware
Here is a list of middleware that are included within the Fiber framework.
Middleware | Description |
---|---|
basicauth | Basic auth middleware provides an HTTP basic authentication. It calls the next handler for valid credentials and 401 Unauthorized for missing or invalid credentials. |
cache | Intercept and cache responses |
compress | Compression middleware for Fiber, it supports deflate , gzip and brotli by default. |
cors | Enable cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) with various options. |
csrf | Protect from CSRF exploits. |
encryptcookie | Encrypt middleware which encrypts cookie values. |
etag | ETag middleware that lets caches be more efficient and save bandwidth, as a web server does not need to resend a full response if the content has not changed. |
expvar | Expvar middleware that serves via its HTTP server runtime exposed variants in the JSON format. |
favicon | Ignore favicon from logs or serve from memory if a file path is provided. |
filesystem | FileSystem middleware for Fiber, special thanks and credits to Alireza Salary |
limiter | Rate-limiting middleware for Fiber. Use to limit repeated requests to public APIs and/or endpoints such as password reset. |
logger | HTTP request/response logger. |
monitor | Monitor middleware that reports server metrics, inspired by express-status-monitor |
pprof | Special thanks to Matthew Lee (@mthli) |
proxy | Allows you to proxy requests to a multiple servers |
recover | Recover middleware recovers from panics anywhere in the stack chain and handles the control to the centralized ErrorHandler. |
requestid | Adds a requestid to every request. |
session | Session middleware. NOTE: This middleware uses our Storage package. |
skip | Skip middleware that skips a wrapped handler is a predicate is true. |
timeout | Adds a max time for a request and forwards to ErrorHandler if it is exceeded. |
🧬 External Middleware
List of externally hosted middleware modules and maintained by the Fiber team.
Middleware | Description |
---|---|
adaptor | Converter for net/http handlers to/from Fiber request handlers, special thanks to @arsmn! |
helmet | Helps secure your apps by setting various HTTP headers. |
jwt | JWT returns a JSON Web Token (JWT) auth middleware. |
keyauth | Key auth middleware provides a key based authentication. |
redirect | Redirect middleware |
rewrite | Rewrite middleware rewrites the URL path based on provided rules. It can be helpful for backward compatibility or just creating cleaner and more descriptive links. |
storage | Premade storage drivers that implement the Storage interface, designed to be used with various Fiber middlewares. |
template | This package contains 8 template engines that can be used with Fiber v1.10.x Go version 1.13 or higher is required. |
websocket | Based on Fasthttp WebSocket for Fiber with Locals support! |
🕶️ Awesome List
For more articles, middlewares, examples or tools check our awesome list.
👍 Contribute
If you want to say thank you and/or support the active development of Fiber
:
- Add a GitHub Star to the project.
- Tweet about the project on your Twitter.
- Write a review or tutorial on Medium, Dev.to or personal blog.
- Support the project by donating a cup of coffee.
☕ Supporters
Fiber is an open source project that runs on donations to pay the bills e.g. our domain name, gitbook, netlify and serverless hosting. If you want to support Fiber, you can ☕ buy a coffee here.
User | Donation | |
---|---|---|
@destari | ☕ x 10 | |
@dembygenesis | ☕ x 5 | |
@thomasvvugt | ☕ x 5 | |
@hendratommy | ☕ x 5 | |
@ekaputra07 | ☕ x 5 | |
@jorgefuertes | ☕ x 5 | |
@candidosales | ☕ x 5 | |
@l0nax | ☕ x 3 | |
@ankush | ☕ x 3 | |
@bihe | ☕ x 3 | |
@justdave | ☕ x 3 | |
@koddr | ☕ x 1 | |
@lapolinar | ☕ x 1 | |
@diegowifi | ☕ x 1 | |
@ssimk0 | ☕ x 1 | |
@raymayemir | ☕ x 1 | |
@melkorm | ☕ x 1 | |
@marvinjwendt | ☕ x 1 | |
@toishy | ☕ x 1 |
💻 Code Contributors
⭐️ Stargazers
⚠️ License
Copyright (c) 2019-present Fenny and Contributors. Fiber
is free and open-source software licensed under the MIT License. Official logo was created by Vic Shóstak and distributed under Creative Commons license (CC BY-SA 4.0 International).
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