gorilla/mux

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21838 stars · 1892 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

gorilla/mux is a powerful HTTP request router and URL matcher for Go web servers, implementing the standard http.Handler interface. It supports path variables with regex patterns, host/scheme/header/query matching, subrouters, middleware, and reverse URL building.

Use cases

• route http requests to handlers in a go web server
• match urls with path variables and regex patterns
• build rest apis with nested subrouters in go
• add middleware like cors or logging to go routes
• reverse-generate urls from registered routes
• serve single page applications from a go backend

When to choose

• you need flexible route matching beyond Go's standard http.ServeMux
• you want path variables, host matching, or custom matchers
• you need subrouters to group routes with shared conditions
• you want a mature, widely-adopted Go router compatible with net/http

When to avoid

• you only need simple path-based routing that http.ServeMux already covers
• you want a batteries-included web framework rather than just a router
• you need HTTP/2 routing features or strict net/http mux compatibility in newer Go versions

Facets

library · maturity stable

routing middleware http-server web-development backend apis go cross-platform http-router url-matcher gorilla-web-toolkit rest-api

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