Go's net/http: Building Production HTTP Servers Without a Framework

Go’s net/http is frequently underrated. The ecosystem has frameworks — Chi, Gin, Echo, Fiber — and they’re fine choices, but the standard library gets you remarkably far without additional dependencies. After building several production APIs that stayed on raw net/http, here’s the honest assessment of what you can and can’t do without a framework, and the patterns that make it work. ...

July 5, 2023 · 6 min · MW
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