Goji

Goji is a minimalistic web framework inspired by Sinatra.

Philosophy

Most of the design decisions in Goji can be traced back to the fundamental philosopy that the Go standard library got things Mostly Right, and if it didn't, it at least is good enough that it's not worth fighting.

Therefore, Goji leans heavily on the standard library, and in particular its interfaces and idioms. You can expect to be able to use most of Goji in exactly the manner you would use a comparable standard library function, and have it function in exactly the way you would expect.

Also in this vein, Goji makes use of Go's flag package, and in particular the default global flag set. Third party packages that have global state and squat on global namespaces is something to be suspicious of, but the flag package is also the closest thing Go has to a unified configuration API, and when used tastefully it can make everyone's lives a bit easier. Wherever possible, the use of these flags is opt-out, at the cost of additional complexity for the user.

Goji also makes an attempt to not be magical -- explicit is better than implicit. Goji does make use of reflection and interface{}, but only when an API would be impossible or cumbersome without it.