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Followers48

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Followers177

+ 1

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Buffalo vs Echo: What are the differences?

What is Buffalo? MVC Web Framework for Go. Buffalo is Go web framework. Yeah, I hate the word "framework" too! Buffalo is different though. Buffalo doesn't want to re-invent wheels like routing and templating. Buffalo is glue that wraps all of the best packages available and makes them all play nicely together.

What is Echo? Golang HTTP server framework. Echo is a fast and unfancy HTTP server framework for Go (Golang). Up to 10x faster than the rest.

Buffalo belongs to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack, while Echo can be primarily classified under "Microframeworks (Backend)".

"Go" is the top reason why over 3 developers like Buffalo, while over 7 developers mention "Highly customizable" as the leading cause for choosing Echo.

Buffalo and Echo are both open source tools. It seems that Echo with 14.2K GitHub stars and 1.28K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Buffalo with 4.56K GitHub stars and 358 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Buffalo

Pros of Echo

4
Go
1
Friendly Api

11
Easy to use
10
Highly customizable
10
Performance
9
Open source
9
Lightweight
7
Middleware
3
Minimal

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What is Buffalo?

Buffalo is Go web framework. Yeah, I hate the word "framework" too! Buffalo is different though. Buffalo doesn't want to re-invent wheels like routing and templating. Buffalo is glue that wraps all of the best packages available and makes them all play nicely together.

What is Echo?

It is a high performance, extensible, minimalist web framework for Go (Golang).

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What are some alternatives to Buffalo and Echo?

Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

ASP.NET

.NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications.

Laravel

It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

Android SDK

Android provides a rich application framework that allows you to build innovative apps and games for mobile devices in a Java language environment.

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