REST

I’m excited to share the first release of Neon (v0.1.0), a personal project that grew out of my desire to simplify how I build REST APIs in Go. I’ve always loved Go’s standard library, and with the recent enhancements to http.ServeMux in Go 1.22, I saw an opportunity to create a lightweight, zero-dependency framework that felt both powerful and distinctly “Go.” The “Why” Behind Neon I built Neon to solve a problem I kept running into: writing the same boilerplate for every new API....

Repo: Neon on GitHub I’ve always been fascinated by how a little bit of structure can make code feel so much cleaner. That’s the idea behind Neon, a small REST framework I built for Go. I wanted to see if I could use struct tags to define API routes and middleware, turning what’s usually a block of repetitive code into something more declarative and, honestly, more fun. The Magic of Struct Tags The core idea of Neon is to use struct tags to attach metadata to your HTTP handlers....