Iris Web Framework

Iris is a fast, simple yet fully featured and very efficient web framework for Go.

It provides a beautifully expressive and easy to use foundation for your next website or API.

Learn what others saying about Iris and star this open-source project to support its potentials.

package main

import "github.com/kataras/iris/v12"

func main() {
  app := iris.New()
  app.Use(iris.Compression)

  app.Get("/", func(ctx iris.Context) {
    ctx.HTML("Hello <strong>%s</strong>!", "World")
  })

  app.Listen(":8080")
}

As one Go developer once said, Iris got you covered all-round and standing strong over the years.

Some of the features Iris offers:

• HTTP/2 (Push, even Embedded data)
• Middleware (Accesslog, Basicauth, CORS, gRPC, Anti-Bot hCaptcha, JWT, MethodOverride, ModRevision, Monitor, PPROF, Ratelimit, Anti-Bot reCaptcha, Recovery, RequestID, Rewrite)
• API Versioning
• Model-View-Controller
• Websockets
• gRPC
• Auto-HTTPS
• Builtin support for ngrok to put your app on the internet, the fastest way
• Unique Router with dynamic path as parameter with standard types like :uuid, :string, :int... and the ability to create your own
• Compression
• View Engines (HTML, Django, Handlebars, Pug/Jade and more)
• Create your own File Server and host your own WebDAV server
• Cache
• Localization (i18n, sitemap)
• Sessions
• Rich Responses (HTML, Text, Markdown, XML, YAML, Binary, JSON, JSONP, Protocol Buffers, MessagePack, Content Negotiation, Streaming, Server-Sent Events and more)
• Response Compression (gzip, deflate, brotli, snappy, s2)
• Rich Requests (Bind URL Query, Headers, Form, Text, XML, YAML, Binary, JSON, Validation, Protocol Buffers, MessagePack and more)
• Dependency Injection (MVC, Handlers, API Routers)
• Testing Suite
• And the most important... you get fast answers and support from the 1st day until now - that's six full years!

👑 Supporters

With your help, we can improve Open Source web development for everyone!

📖 Learning Iris

Installation

The only requirement is the Go Programming Language.

Create a new project

$ mkdir myapp
$ cd myapp
$ go mod init myapp
$ go get github.com/kataras/iris/v12@latest # or @v12.2.0

Install on existing project

$ cd myapp
$ go get github.com/kataras/iris/v12@latest

Run

$ go mod tidy -compat=1.20 # -compat="1.20" for windows.
$ go run .

Iris contains extensive and thorough documentation making it easy to get started with the framework.

For a more detailed technical documentation you can head over to our godocs. And for executable code you can always visit the ./_examples repository's subdirectory.

Do you like to read while traveling?

You can request a PDF and online access of the Iris E-Book (New Edition, future v12.2.0+) today and be participated in the development of Iris.

🙌 Contributing

We'd love to see your contribution to the Iris Web Framework! For more information about contributing to the Iris project please check the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

List of all Contributors

🛡 Security Vulnerabilities

If you discover a security vulnerability within Iris, please send an e-mail to [email protected]. All security vulnerabilities will be promptly addressed.

📝 License

This project is licensed under the BSD 3-clause license, just like the Go project itself.

The project name "Iris" was inspired by the Greek mythology.