Why Use Okapi?

Okapi is a modern, high-performance web framework for building RESTful APIs in Go. It combines simplicity, speed, and flexibility to help you create robust web services with ease.

Key Features:

  • Easy to Learn: With familiar Go syntax and intuitive APIs, you can be productive in minutes—even on your first project.
  • Lightweight and Unopinionated: Okapi is built from the ground up and doesn’t wrap or build on top of another framework. It gives you full control without unnecessary abstraction or bloat.
  • Highly Flexible: Designed to adapt to your architecture and workflow—not the other way around.
  • Built for Production: Fast, reliable, and efficient under real-world load. Okapi is optimized for performance without sacrificing developer experience.
  • Standard Library Compatibility: Integrates seamlessly with Go’s net/http standard library, making it easy to combine Okapi with existing Go code and tools.
  • Automatic OpenAPI Documentation: Generate comprehensive OpenAPI specs automatically for every route, keeping your API documentation always up to date with your code.
  • Dynamic Route Management: Enable or disable routes and route groups at runtime. No need to comment out code, just toggle behavior cleanly and efficiently.
  • Extensible Middleware System: Build reusable middleware components that can be shared across routes and projects.
  • Robust Request Binding: Automatically parse and validate incoming requests (JSON, XML, form data, query params, headers, path variables) into Go structs with minimal boilerplate.
  • Comprehensive Tooling: Includes features like route grouping, static file serving, templating engine support, CORS management, and fine-grained timeout controls.
  • Route Definition & Middleware Chaining: Organize your routes and middleware in a clean, modular way for better maintainability.

Ideal for:

  • High-performance REST APIs
  • Composable microservices
  • Rapid prototyping
  • Learning & teaching Go web development

Whether you’re building your next startup, internal tools, or side projects, Okapi scales with you.