Mars: A lightweight web toolkit for the Go programming language

WORK IN PROGRESS

Mars is a fork of the fantastic, yet not-that-idiomatic-and-pretty-much-abandoned, Revel framework. You might take a look at the corresponding documentation for the time being.

Mars provides the following functionality:

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Differences to Revel

The major changes since forking away from Revel are these:

  • More idiomatic approach to integrating the framework into your application:
    • No need to use the revel command to build, run, package, or distribute your app.
    • Code generation (for registering controllers and reverse routes) is supported using the standard go generate way.
    • No runtime dependencies anymore. Apps using Mars are truly standalone and do not need access to the sources at runtime (default templates and mime config are embedded assets).
    • You are not forced into a fixed directory layout or package names anymore.
    • Removed most of the "path magic" that tried to determine where the sources of your application and revel are: No global AppPath, ViewsPath, TemplatePaths, RevelPath, and SourcePath variables anymore.
  • Added support for Go 1.5+ vendoring.
  • Vendor Mars' dependencies as Git submodules.
  • Added support for HTTP dual-stack mode.
  • Added support for generating self-signed SSL certificates on-the-fly.
  • Added graceful shutdown functionality.
  • Added CSRF protection.
  • Integrated Static controller to support hosting plain HTML files and assets.
  • Removed magic that automatically added template parameter names based on variable names in Controller.Render() calls using code generation and runtime introspection.
  • Removed the cache library.
  • Removed module support.
  • Removed support for configurable template delimiters.
  • Corrected case of render functions (RenderXml --> RenderXML).
  • Fix generating reverse routes for some edge cases: Action parameter is called args or action parameter is of type interface{}.
  • Fixed a XSS vulnerability.