A simple, modern, fast & opinionated REST API framework for Golang

• A modern REST API backend framework for Golang developers
  • Described by OpenAPI 3 & JSON Schema
  • First-class support for middleware, JSON/CBOR, and other features
• Documentation that can’t get out of date
• Guard rails to prevent common mistakes
• High-quality developer tooling

Features included in the Golang REST/GraphQL API Framework:

• HTTP, HTTPS (TLS), and HTTP/2 built-in
• Optional read-only GraphQL interface built-in
• A declarative interface on top of widely used Golang Router Chi
  • Operation & model documentation
  • Request params (path, query, or header)
  • Request body
  • Responses (including errors)
  • Response headers
• JSON Errors using RFC7807 and application/problem+json
• Default (optional) middleware
  • RFC8631 service description & docs links
  • Automatic recovery from panics with traceback & request logging
  • Structured logging middleware using Zap
  • Automatic handling of Prefer: return=minimal from RFC 7240
  • OpenTracing for requests and errors
• Per-operation request size limits & timeouts with sane defaults
• Annotated Golang types for input and output modelsGenerates JSON Schema from Golang types
• Automatic input model validation & error handling
• Documentation generation using RapiDoc, ReDoc, or SwaggerUI
• CLI built-in, configured via arguments or environment variablesSet via e.g. -p 8000, --port=8000, or SERVICE_PORT=8000
• Connection timeouts & graceful shutdown built-in
• Content negotiation between server and client
  • Support for gzip (RFC 1952) & Brotli (RFC 7932) content encoding via the Accept-Encoding header.
  • Support for JSON (RFC 8259), YAML, and CBOR (RFC 7049) content types via the Accept header.
• Conditional requests support, e.g. If-Match or If-Unmodified-Since header utilities.
• Generates OpenAPI JSON for access to a rich ecosystem of tools
  • Mocks with API Sprout
  • SDKs with OpenAPI Generator
  • CLI with Restish
  • And plenty more
• Generates JSON Schema for each resource using describedby link relation headers as well as optional $schema properties in returned objects that integrate into editors for validation & completion.

This project was inspired by FastAPI. Look at the benchmarks to see how Huma compares.

Logo & branding designed by Kari Taylor.