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• What is huma?
• Install
• Example
• Documentation

A modern, simple, fast & flexible micro framework for building HTTP REST/RPC APIs in Go backed by OpenAPI 3 and JSON Schema. Pronounced IPA: /'hjuːmɑ/. The goals of this project are to provide:

• Incremental adoption for teams with existing services
  • Bring your own router (including Go 1.22+), middleware, and logging/metrics
  • Extensible OpenAPI & JSON Schema layer to document existing routes
• A modern REST or HTTP RPC API backend framework for Go developers
  • Described by OpenAPI 3.1 & JSON Schema
• Guard rails to prevent common mistakes
• Documentation that can't get out of date
• High-quality generated developer tooling

Features include:

• Declarative interface on top of your router of choice:
  • Operation & model documentation
  • Request params (path, query, header, or cookie)
  • Request body
  • Responses (including errors)
  • Response headers
• JSON Errors using RFC9457 and application/problem+json by default (but can be changed)
• Per-operation request size limits with sane defaults
• Content negotiation between server and client
  • Support for JSON (RFC 8259) and optionally CBOR (RFC 7049) content types via the Accept header with the default config.
• Conditional requests support, e.g. If-Match or If-Unmodified-Since header utilities.
• Optional automatic generation of PATCH operations that support:
  • RFC 7386 JSON Merge Patch
  • RFC 6902 JSON Patch
  • Shorthand patches
• Annotated Go types for input and output models
  • Generates JSON Schema from Go types
  • Static typing for path/query/header params, bodies, response headers, etc.
  • Automatic input model validation & error handling
• Documentation generation using Stoplight Elements
• Optional CLI built-in, configured via arguments or environment variables
  • Set via e.g. -p 8000, --port=8000, or SERVICE_PORT=8000
  • Startup actions & graceful shutdown built-in
• Generates OpenAPI for access to a rich ecosystem of tools
  • Mocks with API Sprout or Prism
  • SDKs with OpenAPI Generator or oapi-codegen
  • CLI with Restish
  • And plenty more
• Generates JSON Schema for each resource using optional describedby link relation headers as well as optional $schema properties in returned objects that integrate into editors for validation & completion.

This project was inspired by FastAPI. Logo & branding designed by Kari Taylor.

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Testimonials

This is by far my favorite web framework for Go. It is inspired by FastAPI, which is also amazing, and conforms to many RFCs for common web things ... I really like the feature set, the fact that it [can use] Chi, and the fact that it is still somehow relatively simple to use. I've tried other frameworks and they do not spark joy for me. - Jeb_Jenky

After working with #Golang for over a year, I stumbled upon Huma, the #FastAPI-inspired web framework. It’s the Christmas miracle I’ve been hoping for! This framework has everything! - Hana Mohan

I love Huma. Thank you, sincerely, for this awesome package. I’ve been using it for some time now and it’s been great! - plscott

Thank you Daniel for Huma. Superbly useful project and saves us a lot of time and hassle thanks to the OpenAPI gen — similar to FastAPI in Python. - WolvesOfAllStreets

Huma is wonderful, I've started working with it recently, and it's a pleasure, so thank you very much for your efforts 🙏 - callmemicah

It took us 3 months to build our platform in Python with FastAPI, SQL Alchemy and only 3 weeks to rewrite it in Go with Huma and SQL C. Things just work and I seldomly have to debug where in Python I spent a majority of my time debugging. - Bitclick_

Look at Huma, it's great. A nice slim layer on top of stdlib mux/chi and automatic body and parameter serialization, kinda feels like doing dotnet web APIs, but forces you to actually design request and response structs, which is great imo. - Kirides

Install

Install via go get. Note that Go 1.25 or newer is required.

# After: go mod init ...
go get -u github.com/danielgtaylor/huma/v2

Example

Here is a complete basic hello world example in Huma, that shows how to initialize a Huma app complete with CLI, declare a resource operation, and define its handler function.

package main

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"

	"github.com/danielgtaylor/huma/v2"
	"github.com/danielgtaylor/huma/v2/adapters/humachi"
	"github.com/danielgtaylor/huma/v2/humacli"
	"github.com/go-chi/chi/v5"

	_ "github.com/danielgtaylor/huma/v2/formats/cbor"
)

// Options for the CLI. Pass `--port` or set the `SERVICE_PORT` env var.
type Options struct {
	Port int `help:"Port to listen on" short:"p" default:"8888"`
}

// GreetingOutput represents the greeting operation response.
type GreetingOutput struct {
	Body struct {
		Message string `json:"message" example:"Hello, world!" doc:"Greeting message"`
	}
}

func main() {
	// Create a CLI app which takes a port option.
	cli := humacli.New(func(hooks humacli.Hooks, options *Options) {
		// Create a new router & API
		router := chi.NewMux()
		api := humachi.New(router, huma.DefaultConfig("My API", "1.0.0"))

		// Add the operation handler to the API.
		huma.Get(api, "/greeting/{name}", func(ctx context.Context, input *struct{
			Name string `path:"name" maxLength:"30" example:"world" doc:"Name to greet"`
		}) (*GreetingOutput, error) {
			resp := &GreetingOutput{}
			resp.Body.Message = fmt.Sprintf("Hello, %s!", input.Name)
			return resp, nil
		})

		// Tell the CLI how t