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<h2 align="center" style="font-size: 28px;"><b>GoFr: An Opinionated Microservice Development Framework</b></h2>
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## 🎯 **Goal**
GoFr is designed to **simplify microservice development**, with key focuses on **Kubernetes deployment** and **out-of-the-box observability**. While capable of building generic applications, **microservices** remain at its core.
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## 💡 **Key Features**
1. **Simple API Syntax**
2. **REST Standards by Default**
3. **Configuration Management**
4. **[Observability](https://gofr.dev/docs/quick-start/observability)** (Logs, Traces, Metrics)
5. **Inbuilt [Auth Middleware](https://gofr.dev/docs/advanced-guide/http-authentication)** & Custom Middleware Support
6. **[gRPC Support](https://gofr.dev/docs/advanced-guide/grpc)**
7. **[HTTP Service](https://gofr.dev/docs/advanced-guide/http-communication)** with Circuit Breaker Support
8. **[Pub/Sub](https://gofr.dev/docs/advanced-guide/using-publisher-subscriber)**
9. **[Health Check](https://gofr.dev/docs/advanced-guide/monitoring-service-health)** for All Datasources
10. **[Database Migration](https://gofr.dev/docs/advanced-guide/handling-data-migrations)**
11. **[Cron Jobs](https://gofr.dev/docs/advanced-guide/using-cron)**
12. **Support for [Changing Log Level](https://gofr.dev/docs/advanced-guide/remote-log-level-change) Without Restarting**
13. **[Swagger Rendering](https://gofr.dev/docs/advanced-guide/swagger-documentation)**
14. **[Abstracted File Systems](https://gofr.dev/docs/advanced-guide/handling-file)**
15. **[Websockets](https://gofr.dev/docs/advanced-guide/handling-file)**
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## 🚀 **Getting Started**
### **Prerequisites**
- GoFr requires **[Go](https://go.dev/)** version **[1.21](https://go.dev/doc/devel/release#go1.21.0)** or above.
### **Installation**
To get started with GoFr, add the following import to your code and use Go’s module support to automatically fetch dependencies:
```go
import "gofr.dev/pkg/gofr"
```
Alternatively, use the command:
```bash
go get -u gofr.dev/pkg/gofr
```
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## 🏃 **Running GoFr**
Here's a simple example to get a GoFr application up and running:
```go
package main
import "gofr.dev/pkg/gofr"
func main() {
app := gofr.New()
app.GET("/greet", func(ctx *gofr.Context) (interface{}, error) {
return "Hello World!", nil
})
app.Run() // listens and serves on localhost:8000
}
```
To run this code:
```bash
$ go run main.go
```
Visit [`localhost:8000/greet`](http://localhost:8000/greet) to see the result.
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## 📂 **More Examples**
Explore a variety of ready-to-run examples in the [GoFr examples directory](https://github.com/gofr-dev/gofr/tree/development/examples).
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## 👩💻 **Documentation**
- **[GoDoc](https://pkg.go.dev/gofr.dev)**: Official API documentation.
- **[GoFr Documentation](https://gofr.dev/docs)**: Comprehensive guides and resources.
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## 👍 **Contribute**
Help us make GoFr even better:
1. **Star** this repo on GitHub! 🌟
2. Write a review or tutorial on **[Medium](https://medium.com/)**, **[Dev.to](https://dev.to/)**, or your blog.
3. Review the **[CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md)** guide to learn how to contribute to the project.
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