Meet Fiber: Super Fast Golang Framework
Designed to ease things up for fast development with zero memory allocation and performance in mind.
Golang is one of the fastest-growing programming languages allowing developers to build fast, reliable, and efficient software that can scale with memory safety, garbage collection, and CSP-style concurrency.
Wins in Golang
- Built-in strong concurrency and a robust standard library
- High productivity & simplified usage
- No need for external dependency
There are a lot of Go frameworks out there, and choosing the best one that can scale, has consistent performance, and has rich features to build and maintain a project through its production stages.
Factors to consider when choosing the right Golang framework should be :
Complexity
Go language by itself is made to be powerful and simple, when you’re picking a framework look for the one that does not go against the nature of Go language. Fiber framework is made in such a way that any express js developer will find it similar, it does this while giving Golangs great performance and features.
Community
As with any new framework. Fiber framework has a new small growing community compared to other Golang frameworks. it has 26.2k GitHub stars at the time of writing.
Documentation & Resources
There are things developers really appreciate the most, and that is nicely done documentation. documentation that is well covered, organized, and examples included, and if a nice UX/UI is added that’s a plus too 🤩.
Fiber framework has nice documentation that lives you happy while learning. It makes debugging and learning an easy process. You can join the Fiber Discord community to share, engage and gain more insight into the framework.
Fiber Golang Framework
Fiber Framework is built to make Go web development feel like NodeJS Express architecture. Its designed to ease things up for fast development with zero memory allocation and performance.
This great framework is built on top of Fasthttp, the fastest HTTP engine for Go. As seen below, the fiber framework outperformed other well-known frameworks in a Web Framework Benchmark round 21, which measured the performance of several web application platforms, full-stack frameworks, and micro-frameworks (collectively, “frameworks”).
For more information, read the introduction, motivation, and latest environment details.
Some Features in Fiber Framework
- Robust routing: The Express-like route definitions are easy to understand and work with.
- Has a simple way to serve static files.
- Built-in Template engine: Fiber supports multiple template engines
- Focused on High performance: Based on fiber's own benchmark.
- Built-in validations
- Built-in websocket support
- Low Memory Footprint: focus on your application and its business logic, rather than technical particularities.
Conclusion
Don’t be afraid to try. There are many different Golang frameworks available, so it’s a good idea to start with Fiber framework before you make a decision. Even though fiber has not been around for a long time, it has shown a more stable and reliable direction.
