Quickstart

Echo is a high performance, minimalist Go web framework. This guide gets a server running in under five minutes.

Requirements

Echo requires Go 1.25 or newer. Check your version:

go version

Install

Create a module and add Echo:

go mod init myapp
go get github.com/labstack/echo/v5

Hello, World

Create main.go:

package main

import (
  "net/http"

  "github.com/labstack/echo/v5"
  "github.com/labstack/echo/v5/middleware"
)

func main() {
  e := echo.New()

  e.Use(middleware.RequestLogger())
  e.Use(middleware.Recover())

  e.GET("/", func(c *echo.Context) error {
    return c.JSON(http.StatusOK, map[string]string{"message": "Hello, World!"})
  })

  if err := e.Start(":1323"); err != nil {
    e.Logger.Error("failed to start server", "error", err)
  }
}

Run it:

go run main.go

Your server is live at http://localhost:1323. Echo’s router dispatches requests with zero dynamic memory allocation per route.

Next steps

Routing — static, parameterized, and wildcard routes.
Context — the per-request request/response object.
Binding — parse request data into typed structs.