gimlet is a simple collection of tools for creating simple versioned JSON/HTTP APIs. It builds on standard library tools and components of gorilla (mux) and negroni, but these are not material to day to say use.

See the API documentation for a complete overview.

• Authentication middleware and system, to permit integration with LDAP and Okta-based user providers.
• Default middlewares for common operations including logging and compression.
• Methods for defining routes and applications with versioning, using idiomatic components and a clear ergonomic chainable API.

• Allow developers to implement HTTP/JSON APIs by writing http.HandlerFunc methods and passing encoding/json marshallable types to simple response-writing methods.
• Make it easy to define a set of routes with a version prefix, and manage the version prefix at the routing layer rather than in handlers.
• Reuse common components as necessary, and avoid recreating existing tools or making a large inflexible tool.
• Support common workflows, like authentication and observability.

Improve authentication workflows and integration.

In short I was writing a JSON/HTTP API, and wanted the above properties and found that I had written a little library that didn't really have anything to do with the app I was writing so I'm spinning it out both because I want to use this in my next project and I hope you may find it useful.

You can read an introductory blog post, if you like.

Feel free (and encouraged!) to open issues or submit pull requests, if you discover issues, or would like to use gimlet, but encounter an issue.

Gimlet is available under the terms of the Apache License (v2).