Automated ranking

Best Go HTTP Routers

Compare go http routers by maintenance, adoption, security, release activity, and Go ecosystem usage. Top packages in this group include jwtauth, Chi, Gorilla Mux.

Best overall

jwtauth

Highest combined package health score.

Best maintained

jwtauth

Strongest maintenance signal in this category.

Most adopted

jwtauth

Highest adoption signal from stars, forks, and imported-by data.

100

Ranked Packages

11 packages

#1 jwtauth

JWT authentication middleware for Go HTTP services

Go HTTP Routers 641 stars 697 imported-by 95% confidence

#2 Chi

Package chi is a small, idiomatic and composable router for building HTTP services.

Go HTTP Routers 22.3K stars 0 imported-by 45% confidence

#3 Gorilla Mux

Package mux implements a request router and dispatcher.

Go HTTP Routers 21.8K stars 99.5K imported-by 100% confidence

#4 httprouter

Package httprouter is a trie based high performance HTTP request router.

Go HTTP Routers 17.1K stars 27.4K imported-by 100% confidence

#5 bunrouter

Golang HTTP router

Go HTTP Routers 780 stars 141 imported-by 60% confidence

#6 lars

Package lars - Library Access/Retrieval System, is a fast radix-tree based, zero allocation, HTTP router for Go.

Go HTTP Routers 384 stars 66 imported-by 100% confidence

#7 ngamux

Package ngamux is simple HTTP router for Go that compatible with net/http, the standard library to serve HTTP.

Go HTTP Routers 0 stars 31 imported-by 80% confidence

#8 rux

Package rux is a simple and fast request router for golang HTTP applications.

Go HTTP Routers 0 stars 17 imported-by 70% confidence

#9 pure

:non-potable_water: Is a lightweight HTTP router that sticks to the std "net/http" implementation

Go HTTP Routers 0 stars 92 imported-by 80% confidence

#10 v5

Package ship has implemented a flexible, powerful, high performance and minimalist Go Web HTTP router framework, which is inspired by echo and httprouter.

Go HTTP Routers 0 stars 0 imported-by 55% confidence

#11 lura

Ultra performant API Gateway with middlewares. A project hosted at The Linux Foundation

Go HTTP Routers 0 stars 0 imported-by 80% confidence

Comparison Matrix

score dimensions

Package	Health	Maintenance	Adoption	Security	Imported by
jwtauth	95	95	100	92	697
Chi	88	95	98	70	0
Gorilla Mux	80	38	100	92	99.5K
httprouter	80	38	100	92	27.4K
bunrouter	75	43	99	92	141
lars	67	8	93	92	66
ngamux	67	75	33	92	31
rux	58	63	28	70	17
pure	49	15	40	92	92
v5	45	45	5	70	0
lura	41	15	7	92	0

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