beego/beego: beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for the Go programming language.

beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for the Go programming language. - beego/beego

Summary

Beego is an open-source web framework for Go, intended for building RESTful APIs, web applications, and backend services. It provides an MVC-style structure, routing features, API documentation support, and modules for common application concerns such as ORM, sessions, logging, configuration, caching, and tasks; the README states that the source is licensed under Apache License 2.0.

What it is useful for

Beego is useful when a Go team wants a framework that brings common web-application components into one project. Its documented features include RESTful support, MVC architecture, an annotation router, namespaces, modular organization, and automatic API documentation.

The available modules cover a broad set of backend needs. For example, engineers can use orm for database-facing work, session for session handling, logs for application logging, config for configuration, and cache for caching. Other modules include httplib, task, i18n, context, and admin. The separate Bee development tool is also listed as part of Beego’s development tooling.

Beego includes Go-specific capabilities such as interfaces and struct embedding, while its overall design is inspired by Tornado, Sinatra, and Flask.

How engineers can use it

The README provides a minimal quick start for a web application. Create and enter a project directory:

mkdir hello
cd hello

Initialize the Go module and install the current Beego v2 package:

go mod init
go get github.com/beego/beego/v2@latest

Create hello.go with the documented entry point:

package main

import "github.com/beego/beego/v2/server/web"

func main() {
	web.Run()
}

Then download dependencies, build, and run the application:

go mod tidy
go build hello.go
./hello

The application is available at http://localhost:8080. This example uses the v2 import path, github.com/beego/beego/v2/server/web, which is important when adding Beego to an existing Go project.

For larger applications, the README links to an example repository, old documentation, documentation source code, and a backup documentation site. It also notes that the main new documentation website is currently unavailable and warns that some documentation HTTPS certificates may be expired, so browsers may display a “NOT SECURE” warning. Engineers should therefore use the linked backup or source documentation when the primary site is inaccessible.