gow

GoW — Laravel for Go

GoW is a modern, Laravel-inspired web framework for Go.
It delivers the developer experience and productivity of Laravel while staying 100% native Go.

Current Target: Laravel-lite 1.2 — the 80% of Laravel that 80% of developers use every day, done right.

Features

Note: GoW is production-viable for many real-world apps but some advanced features (full RBAC wiring, queue/mail drivers, etc.) may require additional application-level code.

• ✅ Beautiful routing with groups, resources, model binding, signed URLs
• ✅ Powerful Eloquent-style ORM (relations, scopes, soft deletes, casting, upsert, locking, chunking, etc.)
• ✅ Blade-like templating engine with components, slots, and directives
• ✅ Solid authentication foundation (Session, Fortify, Socialite, 2FA, Email Verification) + RBAC (manual wiring for advanced cases)
• ✅ Form Request validation
• ✅ Queue, Events, Broadcasting (WebSocket), Cache, Session
• ✅ Mail + Notifications (with Markdown support)
• ✅ Full Artisan-style CLI (gow command) with dozens of generators
• ✅ Excellent testing tools (actingAs, fakes, database assertions)

Installation

Quick Install (Recommended)

macOS / Linux

curl -sSfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mechneerd/gow/main/install.sh | sh

Windows (PowerShell)

iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mechneerd/gow/main/install.ps1 | iex

After installation:

gow --version

Manual Installation

go install github.com/mechneerd/gow/cmd/gow@latest

Quick Start

Create a New Project

gow new now includes an interactive wizard by default:

gow new myblog

Or use --yes for fast, non-interactive creation:

# Recommended full-stack app (with auth)
gow new myblog --yes

# REST API with PostgreSQL
gow new myapi --api --yes --db=postgres

# Minimal website
gow new mysite --minimal --yes

Supported flags (most useful ones):

• --yes — Skip prompts and use defaults
• --auth / --api / --minimal — Choose starter kit
• --db=sqlite|mysql|postgres — Choose database
• --module=github.com/user/myapp — Custom module path

Run the Application

cd myblog
gow serve
# or
go run main.go

Documentation

Complete documentation is available in one file:

• Complete User Guide — Everything you need in a single document (includes full gow new reference)

Individual guides are also available in docs/guide/:

• Getting Started
• Routing
• ORM
• Authentication
• Artisan CLI
• Views
• Validation
• Testing

Project Types

You can also run gow new myapp without flags to use the interactive wizard.

Use --skeleton to load custom or local templates. The official gow-skeleton repo now ships production-ready kits (web-auth, full) with:

• 9 database migrations (users, roles, permissions, pivots, sessions, verification tokens, etc.)
• Full RBAC + Super Admin seeder (superadmin / 12345678)
• Real bootstrap, config, routes, and models

The Artisan CLI (gow) has received major upgrades and is now one of GoW’s strongest features.

Why GoW?

• Excellent generic container + service provider system
• World-class ORM (one of the most complete in Go)
• Production-ready Authentication stack (Session + Sanctum + Socialite + 2FA)
• Extremely powerful gow new scaffolding + one of the richest Artisan CLIs in Go (dozens of make:* and migrate:* commands)
• Strong testing utilities
• Native WebSocket broadcasting
• Clean, modern Go codebase
• Laravel-like developer experience in Go

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md (will be added before release).

License

MIT License © 2026 GoW Contributors

GoW is now genuinely production-viable for building real-world applications (SaaS, admin panels, APIs, full-stack apps).

Start building today with gow new myblog --yes (or run gow new myblog for the interactive wizard)