Gooo - The anti-magic Go lang web framework (opens in new tab)

Ah, I figured out why I didn't quite like revel. Mainly "interceptors" as shown here: http://robfig.github.com/revel/samples/booking.html

It doesn't feel like idiomatic Go to me, which for me is a big deal. Perhaps if I start running into problems using only net/http I'll change my mind.

Will be sure to give revel another try in that case, but it looks like I'll like goooo's approach more.

I've been very happy with just using net/http, it Just Works and it means I haven't had to learn the Model-View nonsense.

I'm on the same page regarding ORMs/DAOs. It's quick enough to throw some handcrafted SQL in the model or to write up a handful of stored procs.

Submitted an issue for this. Good catch.

I've sent him an email.

The commit messages are also a bit . . . terse

I'm curious too. I would love to see someone make nearly an exact clone of Express (the sinatra inspired lib for Node) but for Go.

Basically something that supports the concept of:

- Arbitrary middleware as long as you adhere to a specific signature.

- Proper caching at the http request/response level for dynamic templates.

- Keep the router separate so you can plugin Pat or the Gorilla Muxer (both of them are much different IMO).

- Add some niceties like setting proper headers for certain popular responses (json or templates, etc.) or easily distinguishing if the request is an XHR or not so you can either render a template or json with a quick boolean check.

- Implement Gorilla's session handler or some other solution and expose it in a really clean way that's also easy to plugin different session adapters (app memory, redis, etc.).

- Some functionality of what "res.locals" does in Express.

I honestly feel like part of the reason why Node is so popular is because of Express. tj did a tremendous job making a very out of the way but ridiculously useful web library.

Express with Node

This is a framework that cuts the unnecessary metaprogramming and sugar that has been obscuring architecture and slowing code for years. There are no helpers. I called it a framework for ironic effect, however it is a framework - an extremely minimilist one, a program that fetches data and serves requests, and renders data.

Other Go web frameworks are like houses of cards, while this one is like a computer monitor. The cards can be knocked over, but the computer monitor is 27".

Forthcoming features for Gooo v2: - more speed - faster - documentation - quicker - higher rate of movement

Eventually: integrating a persistent key-value store

Joke

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