go-chi/chi

lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services

Backend & databasesGo#http#router#context#middleware#api

1.9 Steady Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 30, 2026, 13:32 UTC.

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About the project

Lightweight idiomatic HTTP router for Go, fully compatible with net/http. Helps build large REST API services with middleware, route groups and sub-routers.

Useful for

Build a Go REST API with middleware for logging, RequestID and timeouts
Mount a separate admin router with its own permission checks
Generate routing documentation as JSON or Markdown via docgen

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

1 star so far today, about 3 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending Go today: #7, +5 stars.
About 65 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 22,905
Today: 1 · ≈ 3 by evening
Forks: 2,429
Issues and pull requests: 1,143
Watchers: 202
Language: Go
License: MIT
Latest release: v5.3.2 · August 20, 2026
Created: October 15, 2015
Last push: September 29, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 30, 2026GitHub Trending Go today: #7, +5 stars

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