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I made two very simple identical applications, the first written with a famous mini web framework named `gin`(=a Router, with logger, recover and pure Context out-of-the-box support) and the second in `iris`
(=every feature that you will need at the first place is bundled when you install Iris. Including sessions, websockets, typescript support, a cloud-editor, the view engine with 5 different template parsers, two Routers to select from, an end-to-end framework to test your API, more than 60 handy helpers via Context, complete rest API implementation, and cors, basicauth, internalization i18n, logger and recover middleware out-of-the-box).
> The app didn't used any third-party library. If you test the same thing I test and adapt other features like sessions and websockets then the size of `gin` and `net/http` could be doubled while `iris`' overall file size will remain almost the same.
> A: The Iris' vendor was done manually without any third-party tool. That means that I had the chance to remove any unnecessary code that Iris never uses internally.
Iris is a high-performance tool, but it doesn't stops there. Performance depends on your application too, **Iris helps you to make the right choices** on every step.
You'll **never miss a thing** from `net/http`, but if you do on some point, no problem because Iris is fully compatible with stdlib, you still have access to `http.ResponseWriter` and `http.Request`, you can adapt any third-party middleware of form `func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request, next http.HandlerFunc)` as well.
Unlike other repositories, this one is **very active**. When you post an issue, you get an answer at the next couple of minutes(hours at the worst). If you find a bug, **I am obliged to fix** that on the same day.
> Q: Why this framework is better than alternatives, does the author is, simply, better than other developers?
> A: Probably not, I don't think that I'm better than anyone else, I still learning every single day. The answer is that I have all the world's time to code for Iris the whole day, I don't have any obligations to anybody else, except you. I'd describe my self as a very dedicated FOSS developer.
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- [./adaptors](https://github.com/kataras/iris/tree/v6/adaptors) and [./middleware](https://github.com/kataras/iris/tree/v6/middleware) contains examples of their usage.
- [HISTORY.md](https://github.com//kataras/iris/tree/v6/HISTORY.md) is your best friend, version migrations are released there.
- The most important is to know where to find the [details](https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/kataras/iris.v6)
### FAQ
Explore [these questions](https://github.com/kataras/iris/issues?q=label%3Aquestion) and join to our [community chat][Chat]!
The Iris philosophy is to provide robust tooling for HTTP, making it a great solution for single page applications, web sites, hybrids, or public HTTP APIs. Keep note that, today, iris is faster than nginx itself.
Iris does not force you to use any specific ORM or template engine. With support for the most used template engines (6+), you can quickly craft the perfect application.
I started to design Iris the night of the 13 March 2016, some weeks later, iris started to became famous and I have to fix many issues and implement new features, but I didn't have time to work on Iris because I had a part time job and the (software engineering) colleague which I studied.
I wanted to make iris' users proud of the framework they're using, so I decided to interrupt my studies and colleague, two days later I left from my part time job also.
- **Do Pull Requests on the [iris-contrib](https://github.com/iris-contrib)** organisation's repositories, like [book](https://github.com/iris-contrib/gitbook), [examples](https://github.com/iris-contrib/examples) and to [gopherbook](http://gopherbook.iris-go.com/).
If you are interested in contributing to the Iris project, please see the document [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/kataras/iris/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md).
Besides the fact that we have a [community chat][Chat] for questions or reports and ideas, [stackoverflow](http://stackoverflow.com/) section for generic go+iris questions and the [github issues](https://github.com/kataras/iris/issues) for bug reports and feature requests, you can also contact with me, as a person who is always open to help you:
- [ ] Refactor the [Examples](https://github.com/iris-contrib/examples) to be align with the latest version
- [ ] Upgrade [GitBook](https://docs.iris-go.com) for the latest release
- [ ] Add some missing tests from the previous version and find a way to share these end-to-end tests accross the adaptors and the root
- [ ] Replace http://iris-go.com content to something more fancy, as suggested [here](https://github.com/kataras/iris/issues/613)
- [ ] Make a table list of the most famous middleware(s) with their descriptions, in order to help new Gophers find what they're looking for
Iris is a Community-Driven project waiting for your [feature requests](https://github.com/kataras/iris/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=label%3A%22the%20feature%20has%20been%20implemented%22%20)!
