# Iris Web Framework
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Iris is a fast, simple yet fully featured and very efficient web framework for Go. It provides a beautifully expressive and easy to use foundation for your next website or API.
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## Learning Iris
Qick start
```sh
# assume the following code in example.go file
$ cat example.go
```
```go
package main
import "github.com/kataras/iris"
func main() {
app := iris.Default()
app.Get("/ping", func(ctx iris.Context) {
ctx.JSON(iris.Map{
"message": "pong",
})
})
// listen and serve on http://0.0.0.0:8080.
app.Run(iris.Addr(":8080"))
}
```
```
# run example.go and visit http://0.0.0.0:8080/ping on browser
$ go run example.go
```
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