go-zoo/bone

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1282 stars · 101 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Bone is a lightweight, high-performance HTTP multiplexer (router) for Go that implements the standard net/http Handler interface. It supports URL parameters, regex parameters, wildcard routes, router prefixes, sub-routers, per-route parameter validators, HTTP method declarations, and a custom NotFound handler.

Use cases

• fast http router for go
• golang mux with url parameters
• regex route matching in go
• lightweight alternative to gorilla/mux
• validate route params in a go router
• mount sub-routers in go http server
• router that works with standard net/http handlers

When to choose

• You need very fast request routing while staying fully compatible with net/http Handler and HandlerFunc
• You want URL, regex, and wildcard parameters plus custom validators without adopting a full web framework
• You need a minimal dependency that composes with other routers like gorilla/mux or httprouter via sub-route mounting

When to avoid

• You are starting a new project: the last release was May 2019 and the project appears unmaintained, so actively maintained routers like chi, httprouter, or echo are safer
• You need built-in middleware chaining, JSON binding, or other framework-level features out of the box
• You require long-term security patches or compatibility guarantees with the latest Go releases

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

routing http-server web-development backend apis developer-tools go cross-platform http-multiplexer router mux url-parameters regex-routing wildcard-routes parameter-validators sub-router net-http-compatible lightweight middleware-support

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