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Buffalo vs Iris: What are the differences?

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; Iris: The fastest web framework for Go in (THIS) earth. The fastest web framework for Go.

Buffalo and Iris can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

"Go" is the primary reason why developers consider Buffalo over the competitors, whereas "Fast" was stated as the key factor in picking Iris.

Buffalo and Iris are both open source tools. Iris with 15.1K GitHub stars and 1.59K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Buffalo with 4.56K GitHub stars and 358 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Buffalo
Pros of Iris
  • 4
    Go
  • 1
    Friendly Api
  • 6
    Fast
  • 4
    Easy to use
  • 3
    Almost real-time support to its users
  • 2
    Fluent API
  • 1
    MVC efficient

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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 Iris?

The fastest web framework for Go.

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