Echo

High performance, extensible, minimalist Go web framework.

• Official website
• Quick start
• Middlewares

Help and questions: Github Discussions

Feature Overview

• Optimized HTTP router which smartly prioritize routes
• Build robust and scalable RESTful APIs
• Group APIs
• Extensible middleware framework
• Define middleware at root, group or route level
• Data binding for JSON, XML and form payload
• Handy functions to send variety of HTTP responses
• Centralized HTTP error handling
• Template rendering with any template engine
• Define your format for the logger
• Highly customizable
• Automatic TLS via Let’s Encrypt
• HTTP/2 support

Sponsors

Encore – the platform for building Go-based cloud backends

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Guide

Supported Echo versions

• Latest major version of Echo is v5 as of 2026-01-18.
  • Until 2026-03-31, any critical issues requiring breaking API changes will be addressed, even if this violates semantic versioning.
  • See API_CHANGES_V5.md for public API changes between v4 and v5, notes on upgrading.
  • If you are using Echo in a production environment, it is recommended to wait until after 2026-03-31 before upgrading.
• Echo v4 is supported with security* updates and bug fixes until 2026-12-31

Installation

// go get github.com/labstack/echo/{version}
go get github.com/labstack/echo/v5

Latest version of Echo supports last four Go major releases and might work with older versions.

Example

package main

import (
  "github.com/labstack/echo/v5"
  "github.com/labstack/echo/v5/middleware"
  "log/slog"
  "net/http"
)

func main() {
  // Echo instance
  e := echo.New()

  // Middleware
  e.Use(middleware.RequestLogger()) // use the RequestLogger middleware with slog logger
  e.Use(middleware.Recover()) // recover panics as errors for proper error handling

  // Routes
  e.GET("/", hello)

  // Start server
  if err := e.Start(":8080"); err != nil {
    slog.Error("failed to start server", "error", err)
  }
}

// Handler
func hello(c *echo.Context) error {
  return c.String(http.StatusOK, "Hello, World!")
}

Official middleware repositories

Following list of middleware is maintained by Echo team.

Third-party middleware repositories

Be careful when adding 3rd party middleware. Echo teams does not have time or manpower to guarantee safety and quality of middlewares in this list.

Please send a PR to add your own library here.

Contribute

Use issues for everything

• For a small change, just send a PR.
• For bigger changes open an issue for discussion before sending a PR.
• PR should have:
  • Test case
  • Documentation
  • Example (If it makes sense)
• You can also contribute by:
  • Reporting issues
  • Suggesting new features or enhancements
  • Improve/fix documentation

Credits

• Vishal Rana (Author)
• Nitin Rana (Consultant)
• Roland Lammel (Maintainer)
• Martti T. (Maintainer)
• Pablo Andres Fuente (Maintainer)
• Contributors

License

MIT