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Echo teams does not have time or manpower to guarantee safety and quality of middlewares in this list. | Repository | Description | |------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | [deepmap/oapi-codegen](https://github.com/deepmap/oapi-codegen) | Automatically generate RESTful API documentation with [OpenAPI](https://swagger.io/specification/) Client and Server Code Generator | | [github.com/swaggo/echo-swagger](https://github.com/swaggo/echo-swagger) | Automatically generate RESTful API documentation with [Swagger](https://swagger.io/) 2.0. | | [github.com/ziflex/lecho](https://github.com/ziflex/lecho) | [Zerolog](https://github.com/rs/zerolog) logging library wrapper for Echo logger interface. | | [github.com/brpaz/echozap](https://github.com/brpaz/echozap) | Uber´s [Zap](https://github.com/uber-go/zap) logging library wrapper for Echo logger interface. | | [github.com/samber/slog-echo](https://github.com/samber/slog-echo) | Go [slog](https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/exp/slog) logging library wrapper for Echo logger interface. | | [github.com/darkweak/souin/plugins/echo](https://github.com/darkweak/souin/tree/master/plugins/echo) | HTTP cache system based on [Souin](https://github.com/darkweak/souin) to automatically get your endpoints cached. It supports some distributed and non-distributed storage systems depending your needs. | | [github.com/mikestefanello/pagoda](https://github.com/mikestefanello/pagoda) | Rapid, easy full-stack web development starter kit built with Echo. | | [github.com/go-woo/protoc-gen-echo](https://github.com/go-woo/protoc-gen-echo) | ProtoBuf generate Echo server side code | Please send a PR to add your own library here. ## Contribute **Use issues for everything** - For a small change, just send a PR. - For bigger changes open an issue for discussion before sending a PR. - PR should have: - Test case - Documentation - Example (If it makes sense) - You can also contribute by: - Reporting issues - Suggesting new features or enhancements - Improve/fix documentation ## Credits - [Vishal Rana](https://github.com/vishr) (Author) - [Nitin Rana](https://github.com/nr17) (Consultant) - [Roland Lammel](https://github.com/lammel) (Maintainer) - [Martti T.](https://github.com/aldas) (Maintainer) - [Pablo Andres Fuente](https://github.com/pafuent) (Maintainer) - [Contributors](https://github.com/labstack/echo/graphs/contributors) ## License [MIT](https://github.com/labstack/echo/blob/master/LICENSE)