NestGo — a NestJS-Style Web Framework for Go

NestGo brings the architecture that made NestJS popular — controllers, dependency injection, guards, interceptors, pipes, and exception filters — to Go, while staying true to Go’s philosophy: explicit code, compile-time safety, and a single static binary. Use it to build REST APIs, microservices, and production backend services in Golang without inventing your own project structure.

go get github.com/ashrafAli23/nestgo
go get github.com/ashrafAli23/nestgo-gin-adapter    # or nestgo-fiber-adapter

Why NestGo?

• Familiar architecture, idiomatic Go — if you know NestJS, you already know where everything goes. No decorators or runtime reflection on the hot path: NestGo uses Go generics for type-safe parameter extraction.
• Swap HTTP engines in one line — the core is interfaces only. Run on Gin or Fiber and switch adapters without touching a single handler.
• Dependency injection is optional — plain constructors with the app package, or uber/fx modules with di; same behavior either way.
• Production middleware included — CORS, Helmet, rate limiting, CSRF, request ID, distributed tracing, timeouts, ETag, idempotency, body limits, uploads, compression, and structured request logging.
• Production-ready lifecycle — graceful shutdown on SIGTERM, TLS, health and readiness probes for Kubernetes, and pluggable structured logging.

A complete endpoint in a few lines

type UserController struct{}

func (c *UserController) Prefix() string { return "/users" }

func (c *UserController) RegisterRoutes(r core.Router) {
    r.GET("/:id", core.Handle2(core.RCtx(), core.PInt64("id"), c.GetByID))
    r.POST("/", core.HandleC1(core.B[CreateUserDTO](), c.Create))
}

// Typed parameters are extracted and validated for you — the Go
// equivalent of NestJS's @Param() and @Body() decorators.
func (c *UserController) GetByID(ctx context.Context, id int64) (any, error) {
    return map[string]any{"id": id}, nil
}

func (c *UserController) Create(ctx core.Context, dto *CreateUserDTO) error {
    return ctx.JSON(201, dto)
}

Wire it up with dependency injection and run:

app := di.NewApp(config, ginadapter.New,
    fx.Module("users", fx.Provide(di.AsController(NewUserController))),
)
app.Run()

Explore the documentation

Start here	Build features	Run in production
Getting Started	Guards · Interceptors	Production Guide
Controllers & Routing	Pipes · Exception Filters	Middleware Reference
Type-Safe Handlers	Validation & Errors	Adapters: Gin & Fiber · Writing an Adapter
Application Without DI · Dependency Injection	API Versioning · Server-Sent Events	FAQ

Coming from TypeScript? Read NestGo vs NestJS for a concept-by-concept mapping.

Project modules

Module	Purpose
nestgo	Core framework: interfaces, middleware, DI
nestgo-gin-adapter	Gin HTTP engine adapter (net/http based)
nestgo-fiber-adapter	Fiber v3 HTTP engine adapter (fasthttp based)
nestgo-validator	Struct-tag validation for DTOs

NestGo requires Go 1.25.14 or later and is MIT licensed.