🚀 Fiber v1.8. What's new, updated and re-thinked?

Introduction

Hi, Fiber community! 👋 With a little delay, but let me introduce the new major version of Fiber Go web framework – v1.8.

💭 Please note: official Fiber docs may not contains extensive description for some changes. Don't worry, authors are working right now for it.

📝 Table of contents

• New life of Middlewares
  • middleware.BasicAuth()
  • middleware.CORS()
  • middleware.Limiter()
  • middleware.Logger()
  • middleware.RequestID()
  • middleware.Helmet()
• New, Updated & Re-thinked
  • Range() method for Ctx
  • Compress() method for Ctx
  • Compression option for Settings
  • Immutable option for Settings
• Re-named list
• Do you like Fiber?
• Your assistance to project

New life of Middlewares

A willful decision was made and now... all Fiber middlewares are put in their own Go package middleware with huge improvements!

If you want to install/update Fiber with middlewares, run command:

go get -u github.com/gofiber/fiber/...

And use it on import section (after main package):

// ...

import (
    "github.com/gofiber/fiber"
    "github.com/gofiber/fiber/middleware" // add middleware package to project
)

// ...

OK. Let's see what comes out of it! 😉

✅ middleware.BasicAuth()

Provides a very simple (but useful sometimes) authentication:

func main() {
    app := fiber.New()

    // Set middleware config
    config := middleware.BasicAuthConfig{
        Users: fiber.Map{
            "john":  "doe",
            "admin": "123456",
        },
    }

    // Using BasicAuth middleware with config
    app.Use(middleware.BasicAuth(config))

    // Route for success authenticate
    app.Get("/", func(c *fiber.Ctx) {
        c.Send("You are authorized!")
    })

    app.Listen(3000)
}

Check, how it works on console (by curl):

curl --user john:doe http://localhost:3000

✅ middleware.CORS()

CORS middleware implements Cross-Origin Resource Sharing specification. It's extremely useful middleware for work with frontend, when you build REST API.

func main() {
    app := fiber.New()

    // Using CORS middleware
    app.Use(middleware.CORS())

    // ...
}

And now, run on console:

curl -H "Origin: http://example.com" --verbose http://localhost:3000

✅ middleware.Limiter()

This middleware can limit repeated requests to public APIs and/or endpoints. For example, let's limit the number of requests to a maximum of 2 per 10 seconds:

func main() {
    app := fiber.New()

    // Max 2 requests per 10 seconds
    config := middleware.LimiterConfig{
        Timeout: 10,
        Max:     2,
    }

    // Using Limiter middleware with config
    app.Use(middleware.Limiter(config))

    // ...
}

✅ middleware.Logger()

Built-in middleware for logs the information about each HTTP request.

func main() {
    app := fiber.New()

    // If you want to change default Logger config
    config := middleware.LoggerConfig{
      Format:     "${time} - ${method} ${path}\n",
      TimeFormat: "Mon, 2 Jan 2006 15:04:05 MST",
    }

    // Using Logger middleware with config
    app.Use(middleware.Logger(config))

    // ...
}

✅ middleware.RequestID()

This middleware ca add an identifier to the request using X-Request-ID header:

func main() {
    app := fiber.New()

    // Using RequestID middleware
    app.Use(middleware.RequestID())

    // ...
}

It generates and sets X-Request-ID header with UUID like:

6ba7b810-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8

✅ middleware.Helmet()

Helmet middleware provides protection against:

• Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attack.
• Content type sniffing.
• Clickjacking.
• Insecure connection.
• And other code injection attacks.

func main() {
    app := fiber.New()

    // Using Helmet middleware
    app.Use(middleware.Helmet())

    // ...
}

New, Updated & Re-thinked

New features, some updates and re-thinks functions for you 👇

✅ Range() method for Ctx

This struct contain the type and a slice of ranges will be returned:

// Range: bytes=500-700, 700-900

app.Get("/", func(c *fiber.Ctx) {
  b := c.Range(1000)

  if b.Type == "bytes" {
    for r := range r.Ranges {
      fmt.Println(r)
      // => [500, 700]
    }
  }
})

✅ Compress() method for Ctx

With this method you can easily enable/disable compression within handlers.

func main() {
    // Init app and set config
    app := fiber.New(&fiber.Settings{
      Compression: true, // enable global compression
    })

    // Route with compression
    app.Get("/compressed", func(c *fiber.Ctx) {
      c.Send("Hello, compressed World!") // compressed
    })

    // Route without compression
    app.Get("/not-compressed", func(c *fiber.Ctx) {
      c.Compress(false)                      // disable compression
      c.Send("Hello, not compressed World!") // not compressed
    })

    // ...
}

ℹ️ Compression option for Settings

Enables GZip or Deflate compression for all responses:

app.Settings.Compression = true

ℹ️ Immutable option for Settings

When enabled, all values returned by context methods are immutable:

app.Settings.Immutable = true

By default, they are valid until you return from the handler.

Re-named list

🔁 Settings.ViewFolder -> Settings.TemplateFolder
🔁 Settings.ViewEngine -> Settings.TemplateEngine
🔁 Settings.ViewExtension -> Settings.TemplateExtension

💬 Do you like Fiber? Tell about it!

Fiber authors are always listening to its users in issues and all over the Internet. Therefore, it would be great, if you could share your opinion or/and experience with Fiber to authors in GitHub repository!

[...] because it's only right way to create a fast, flexible and friendly Go web framework for any tasks, deadlines and developer skills!

— Fiber Authors

Your assistance to project 👍

1. Add a GitHub Star to project.
2. Tweet about Fiber on your Twitter.
3. Help to translate README and API Docs to another language (at this moment, Fiber was translated to 10 languages).

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