web.go is the simplest way to write web applications in the Go programming language. It's ideal for writing simple, performant backend web services.

web.go should be familiar to people who've developed websites with higher-level web frameworks like sinatra or web.py. It is designed to be a lightweight web framework that doesn't impose any scaffolding on the user. Some features include:

• Routing to url handlers based on regular expressions
• Secure cookies
• Support for fastcgi and scgi
• Web applications are compiled to native code. This means very fast execution and page render speed
• Efficiently serving static files
• TLS server support
• automatic marshaling of JSON and XML content

(A security expert should probably sign off on the TLS support before it becomes a standard.)

Make sure you have the a working Go environment. See the install instructions.

To install web.go, simply run:

go get github.com/hraban/web

Note that you need to set the environment variable GOPATH before using go get.

    package main

    import (
        "github.com/hraban/web"
    )

    func hello(val string) string {
        return "hello " + val
    } 

    func main() {
        web.Get("/(.*)", hello)
        web.Run("0.0.0.0:9999")
    }

To run the application, put the code in a file called hello.go and run:

go run hello.go

You can point your browser to http://localhost:9999/world .

See http://www.godoc.org/github.com/hraban/web for a tutorial. There are more example applications in the examples directory.