Changelog

v2.0.0 (2017-01-06)

After many months of v2 being in an RC state with many companies and users running it in production, the inclusion of some improvements to the middlewares, we are very pleased to announce v2.0.0 of chi.

Huge update! chi v2 is a large refactor targetting Go 1.7+. As of Go 1.7, the popular community "net/context" package has been included in the standard library as "context" and utilized by "net/http" and http.Request to managing deadlines, cancelation signals and other request-scoped values. We're very excited about the new context addition and are proud to introduce chi v2, a minimal and powerful routing package for building large HTTP services, with zero external dependencies. Chi focuses on idiomatic design and encourages the use of stdlib HTTP handlers and middlwares.
chi v2 deprecates its chi.Handler interface and requires http.Handler or http.HandlerFunc
chi v2 stores URL routing parameters and patterns in the standard request context: r.Context()
chi v2 lower-level routing context is accessible by chi.RouteContext(r.Context()) *chi.Context, which provides direct access to URL routing parameters, the routing path and the matching routing patterns.
Users upgrading from chi v1 to v2, need to:
1. Update the old chi.Handler signature, func(ctx context.Context, w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) to the standard http.Handler: func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
2. Use chi.URLParam(r *http.Request, paramKey string) string or URLParamFromCtx(ctx context.Context, paramKey string) string to access a url parameter value

Released chi v1 stable https://github.com/pressly/chi/tree/v1.0.0 for Go 1.6 and older.

Reuse context objects via sync.Pool for zero-allocation routing #33
BREAKING NOTE: due to subtle API changes, previously chi.URLParams(ctx)["id"] used to access url parameters has changed to: chi.URLParam(ctx, "id")