Ale is a minimalistic web framework written in Go.

Why does the world need another web framework?

It doesn't.

I'm a strong believer in the Go philosophy of not using extraneous frameworks, and building everything yourself from scratch.

On the other hand, I write multiple web applications, and I don't want to duplicate all the boilerplate code in every one. So this package is simply my web framework scaffolding. I make no attempt to make this useful for anyone else. I publish it on GitHub for my own personal convenience, and on the off chance that someone else might also find it useful. But I make no guarantees, or necessarily even any effort, to make this product meaningful or useful for anyone other than me, in my own situation.

There's a trend toward naming Go web frameworks after cocktails. I hate cocktails. But I like beer. And "Ale" is shorter than "Belgian Tripel", which is my favorite style, and seems catchier than either "Red" or "IPA", which tie it for length.

Ale is designed to make writing 12-factor apps easier, and this informs many assumptions.

Ale simplifies a few tedious tasks I was tired of repeating in my web apps:

• Reading configuration from the environment
• Logging to stdout
• Debugging to stdout when the 'debug' build flag is used
• Port binding
• Graceful shutdown

TODO:

• Simple handling of html/template

Anything not on the list above, Ale does not attempt to do.

Ale is released under the MIT license. See the LICENSE.txt file for details.