Lit 🔥

Lit is an expressive and fast HTTP framework for Golang. It aims to enhance development by providing great simplicity, extensibility and maintainability.

Documentation

Check Lit documentation.

Getting started

Create a new Go project and import Lit with the command:

go get github.com/jvcoutinho/lit

Write this to your main.go file:

package main

import (
  "log"
  "net/http"

  "github.com/jvcoutinho/lit"
  "github.com/jvcoutinho/lit/render"
)

func main() {
  r := lit.NewRouter()
  r.Use(lit.Log)
  r.Use(lit.Recover)

  r.GET("/", HelloWorld)

  server := http.Server{Addr: ":8080", Handler: r}
  log.Fatalln(server.ListenAndServe())
}

func HelloWorld(r *lit.Request) lit.Response {
  return render.OK("Hello, World!")
}

Then you can start adding new routes and middlewares.

Features

• Speed and efficiency: It uses httprouter, a very fast zero-allocation router. See benchmarks.
• Expressiveness: Its constructs make room for declarative programming, creating code that is more readable, maintainable, extensible and testable.
• Flexibility: It allows one to easily extend its constructs. Creating new validations, middlewares and responses, for example, is very simple and intuitive.
• Idiomatic: It uses latest Go features, such as generics, in order to build a framework that is elegant to code.

Check an example of lit.Handler vs http.Handler.

Benchmarks

The instances below were tested with the specifications:

goos: windows
goarch: amd64
pkg: github.com/julienschmidt/go-http-routing-benchmark
cpu: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz

You can check the methodology or try yourself with go-http-routing-benchmark.

GitHub API

Router	Memory for handler registration	Number repetitions	Latency per repetition	Heap memory per repetition	Allocations per repetition
Chi	94888 B	10000	105680 ns/op	61713 B/op	406 allocs/op
Gin	94888 B	84152	14056 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
Lit 🔥	42088 B	65989	17919 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
Gorilla	1319632 B	612	1886488 ns/op	199684 B/op	1588 allocs/op
HttpRouter	37136 B	114933	10511 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
Martini	485032 B	596	2070638 ns/op	231420 B/op	2731 allocs/op

Parse API

Router	Memory for handler registration	Number repetitions	Latency per repetition	Heap memory per repetition	Allocations per repetition
Chi	9656 B	315666	11549 ns/op	7904 B/op	52 allocs/op
Gin	7864 B	3118021	1144 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
Lit 🔥	5776 B	2670331	1342 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
Gorilla	105448 B	75290	47507 ns/op	23632 B/op	198 allocs/op
HttpRouter	5072 B	4421617	816 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
Martini	45808 B	45362	79979 ns/op	25696 B/op	305 allocs/op

Fake API (only static routes)

Router	Memory for handler registration	Number repetitions	Latency per repetition	Heap memory per repetition	Allocations per repetition
Chi	83160 B	51685	69608 ns/op	47728 B/op	314 allocs/op
Gin	34344 B	385328	9302 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
Lit 🔥	25560 B	450072	7944 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
Gorilla	582536 B	7695	500949 ns/op	113042 B/op	1099 allocs/op
HttpRouter	21712 B	638422	5716 ns/op	0 B/op	0 allocs/op
Martini	309880 B	3915	916608 ns/op	129211 B/op	2031 allocs/op

As seen, Lit consumes less memory to register a batch of routes and has performance comparable to the top performers, such as Gin Gonic and HttpRouter.

Contributing

Feel free to open issues or pull requests!

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Copyright (c) 2023-2024

João Victor de Sá Ferraz Coutinho joao.coutinho9@gmail.com