Router

A high-performance router for Go with support for path parameters, wildcards, middleware, and route grouping. Sports an incredibly simple API over the top of a prefix tree data structure. Minimal allocations and, dare we say, 🔥blazingly fast🔥.

Features

• Zero dependencies
• Fast path matching with radix tree structure
• Support for path parameters ([id]) and wildcards (*path)
• Middleware support for request processing pipelines
• Route grouping with shared prefixes and middleware
• Implements http.Handler for direct integration
• Up to 15x faster than http.ServeMux for dynamic routes
• Zero allocations for static routes

Installation

go get git.sharkk.net/Go/Router

Usage

Basic Routing

// Create a new router
r := router.New()

// Static routes
r.Get("/", func(w router.Res, r router.Req, params []string) {
    fmt.Fprintf(w, "Root handler")
})

// Parameter routes
r.Get("/users/[id]", func(w router.Res, r router.Req, params []string) {
    userID := params[0]
    fmt.Fprintf(w, "User ID: %s", userID)
})

// Wildcard routes
r.Get("/files/*path", func(w router.Res, r router.Req, params []string) {
    filePath := params[0]
    fmt.Fprintf(w, "File path: %s", filePath)
})

// Lookup routes manually
if handler, params, ok := r.Lookup("GET", "/users/123"); ok {
    handler(nil, nil, params)
}

// Or simply serve them
http.ListenAndServe(":8080", r)

Middleware

// Create logging middleware
func LoggingMiddleware(next router.Handler) router.Handler {
    return router.Handler(func(w router.Res, r router.Req, params []string) {
        fmt.Println("Request started")
        next(w, r, params)
        fmt.Println("Request completed")
    })
}

// Apply middleware globally
r := router.New()
r.Use(LoggingMiddleware)

// Apply middleware to specific routes
r.WithMiddleware(AuthMiddleware).Get("/admin", adminHandler)

http.ListenAndServe(":8080", r)

Route Groups

// Create a router
r := router.New()

// Create an API group
api := r.Group("/api")
api.Get("/users", listUsersHandler)  // matches /api/users

// Nested groups
v1 := api.Group("/v1")
v1.Get("/products", listProductsHandler)  // matches /api/v1/products

// Group with middleware
admin := api.Group("/admin")
admin.Use(AuthMiddleware)
admin.Get("/stats", statsHandler)  // matches /api/admin/stats

http.ListenAndServe(":8080", r)

Benchmarks

Benchmark comparing Router to the standard http.ServeMux:

cpu: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1370P

BenchmarkComparison/root_path
Router:     1.798 ns/op     0 B/op   0 allocs/op
ServeMux:  40.98  ns/op     0 B/op   0 allocs/op

BenchmarkComparison/static_path
Router:    18.41 ns/op     0 B/op   0 allocs/op
ServeMux:  86.04 ns/op     0 B/op   0 allocs/op

BenchmarkComparison/dynamic_path
Router:     24.23 ns/op     0 B/op   0 allocs/op
ServeMux:  221.9  ns/op    48 B/op   3 allocs/op

BenchmarkComparison/not_found
Router:     10.76 ns/op     0 B/op   0 allocs/op
ServeMux:  210.2  ns/op    56 B/op   3 allocs/op

• Root path lookups are 22x faster
• Static paths are 4.7x faster with zero allocations
• Dynamic paths are 9x faster with zero allocations
• Not found paths are 19.5x faster with zero allocations

License

Sharkk Minimal License; do what you like!