web.go's Introduction

web.go

web.go is the simplest way to write web applications in the Go programming language.

Overview

web.go should be familiar to people who've developed websites with higher-level web frameworks like sinatra, pylons, or web.py. It is designed to be a lightweight web framework that doesn't impose any scaffolding on the user. Some features include:

Routing to url handlers based on regular expressions
Secure cookies
Support for fastcgi and scgi
Web applications are compiled to native code. This means very fast execution and page render speed ( benchmarks coming soon :)
Serving static files

Installation

Make sure you have the a working Go environment. See the install instructions. web.go will always compile on the release tag.
git clone git://github.com/hoisie/web.go.git
cd web.go && make install

Or simply run goinstall github.com/hoisie/web.go

Example

package main

import (
    "web"
)

func hello(val string) string { return "hello " + val } 

func main() {
    web.Get("/(.*)", hello)
    web.Run("0.0.0.0:9999")
}

To run the application, put the code in a file called hello.go and run:

8g hello.go && 8l -o hello hello.8 && ./hello

You can point your browser to http://localhost:9999/world .

Documentation

For a quickstart guide, check out web.go's home page

There is also a tutorial

If you use web.go, I'd greatly appreciate a quick message about what you're building with it. This will help me get a sense of usage patterns, and helps me focus development effors on features that people will actually use.