Echo
High performance, extensible, minimalist Go web framework.
Echo is built on Go's standard net/http — and interoperates with it via echo.WrapHandler / echo.WrapMiddleware — adding the parts the standard library leaves to you: a fast radix-tree router, request binding (with a pluggable validator), a deep middleware ecosystem, and centralized error handling. Actively maintained, with v5 as the current release line (see badges above for the latest version and most recent commit).
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
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Guide
Supported Echo versions
- Latest major version of Echo is
v5as of 2026-01-18.
v4 and v5, notes on upgrading.
- Echo
v4is 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/v5Latest 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.
| Repository | Description | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | github.com/labstack/echo-jwt | JWT middleware | | github.com/labstack/echo-contrib | casbin, gorilla/sessions, pprof) middlewares | | github.com/labstack/echo-otel | OpenTelemetry middleware for tracing and metrics | | github.com/labstack/echo-prometheus | Prometheus middleware for Echo |
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.
| Repository | Description | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | oapi-codegen/oapi-codegen | Automatically generate RESTful API documentation with OpenAPI Client and Server Code Generator | | github.com/swaggo/echo-swagger | Automatically generate RESTful API documentation with Swagger 2.0. | | github.com/ziflex/lecho | Zerolog logging library wrapper for Echo logger interface. | | github.com/brpaz/echozap | Uber´s Zap logging library wrapper for Echo logger interface. | | github.com/samber/slog-echo | Go slog logging library wrapper for Echo logger interface. | | github.com/darkweak/souin/plugins/echo | HTTP cache system based on Souin to automatically get your endpoints cached. It supports some distributed and non-distributed storage systems depending your needs. | | github.com/mikestefanello/pagoda | Rapid, easy full-stack web development starter kit built with Echo. | | github.com/go-woo/protoc-gen-echo | ProtoBuf generate Echo server side code |
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:
- You can also contribute by:
Credits
- Vishal Rana (Author)
- Nitin Rana (Consultant)
- Martti T. (Lead Maintainer)
- Roland Lammel (Maintainer Emeritus)
- Pablo Andres Fuente (Maintainer Emeritus)
- Contributors