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mingrammer/go-web-framework-stars
:star: Web frameworks for Go, most starred on GitHub
A single-file Go script that fetches star counts for a manually-maintained list of Go web frameworks and rewrites the README table automatically via GitHub Actions. Purely a reference document, not a library or tool you'd take a dependency on.
The table itself is genuinely useful as a quick orientation map for the Go web framework ecosystem — star counts, forks, open issues, and last commit in one place. The automation (list2md.go + GH Actions cron) keeps data fresh without manual editing. Including last commit date is the right call; it immediately surfaces dead projects like martini and revel without burying that fact.
The list is entirely star-ranked with no editorial filter — martini (abandoned 2017), go-json-rest (abandoned 2017), and neo (abandoned 2017) sit alongside active projects, which misleads anyone skimming. There's no distinction between 'full framework', 'router', and 'microservices toolkit', so gin and go-kit get compared as if they're the same thing. Adding a repo requires a manual PR to list.txt with no validation that the submitted URL is actually a web framework. The Go source (list2md.go) has no documentation and mixes fetching, formatting, and file writing in one flat function.