If you're coming from <ahref="https://nodejs.org/en/">Node.js</a> world, this is the <ahref="https://github.com/expressjs/express">expressjs</a> for the <ahref="https://golang.org">Go Programming Language.</a>
I made two very simple identical applications, the first written with a famous mini web framework named `gin`(=Just a Router, with logger, recover and pure Context 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).
Note that these applications doesn't uses any third-party library, they are simple applications, if we used other features like sessions and websockets then the size of `gin` and `net/http`
could be the double, while in the same time `iris`' overall file size will remain almost the same.
Result: Iris' executable file size is even smaller than simple router libraries!
> Q: How is that possible?
> 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.
Familiar and easy API.
Examples and Documentation for the most use cases and if you don't find something, just do an online search of the net/http way and adapt this way to Iris, Iris is not black-magic, I didn't invent the world.
Iris is a low-level web framework, you know what you code on each single line.
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.
Iris is a community-driven project, you suggest and I code.
Unlike others, this repository is very active. When you post an issue, you get an answer in the next couple of minutes, hours at the worst. If you find a bug, I am obliged to fix it 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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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.
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:
