justinas/alice

Health v2 · maintenance only

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3364 stars · 152 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Alice is a tiny Go library for chaining HTTP middleware functions and an application handler into a single http.Handler. It transforms nested middleware wrapping into a readable, declarative chain with alice.New(...).Then(handler).

Use cases

• chain http middleware in go
• compose middleware functions for net/http handlers
• build a middleware pipeline for a go web server
• replace nested middleware wrapping with readable code
• apply logging, csrf, and throttling middleware to a handler
• wrap http handlers with reusable middleware

When to choose

• you use net/http and want minimal, dependency-free middleware chaining
• your middleware follows the func(http.Handler) http.Handler signature
• you want a stable, widely-adopted library with almost no code

When to avoid

• you use a full web framework that already includes middleware chaining
• you need middleware with per-route configuration or context injection beyond plain wrapping
• you need guarantees about middleware execution order or behavior

Facets

library · maturity stable

middleware http-server web-framework web-development backend developer-tools go cross-platform http-middleware handler-chaining minimal-library net-http web-server

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