easily manage HTTP request / response payloads of Go HTTP services

Is go-chi/render beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to go-chi/render to say how often they are merged. 2 beginner-friendly issues are open now.

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341
Forks
68
Open beginner issues
2
Indexed issues
23
Dominant language
Go
License
MIT
Last GitHub push
Oct 15, 2023
Latest indexed
Sep 16, 2026
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How to contribute to go-chi/render

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Your contributions will be published under the project's MIT license.
  3. Pick one of the 2 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • Render and Bind panic on unexported nested interface fields
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

    go-chi/render#72 ·

  • Channel response appends JSON null after context timeout
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

    go-chi/render#71 ·

  • [proposal] swap out implementation of form with https://github.com/go-playground/form
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    go-chi/render#59 ·

  • New Bind/Render package for chi
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

    go-chi/render#58 · 1 reaction ·

  • Redundant escapeHTML Setting in go-chi/render
    Open

    Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

    go-chi/render#52 ·

  • is possible to apply 'dec.DisallowUnknownFields()' to render.Bind ?
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    go-chi/render#50 · 2 comments ·

  • Is there an easy way to replace JSON serializer?
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    go-chi/render#36 · 1 comment · 3 reactions ·

  • Add support for binding query params into a struct?
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    go-chi/render#35 · 1 comment · 5 reactions ·

  • Make error a predefined variable for later comparision
    Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

    go-chi/render#24 · 3 comments · 1 reaction ·

  • Can we add Go Modules support?
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    go-chi/render#21 · 3 reactions ·

  • [Question] When Bind or Render needs a database object...
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    go-chi/render#19 · 1 comment ·

  • Validator option
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    go-chi/render#10 · 1 comment ·

  • API/Examples/Docs
    Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    go-chi/render#8 · 1 comment · 10 reactions ·

  • Support Content ContentTypeForm
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    go-chi/render#6 · 7 comments ·

  • SetContentType middleware breaks Content-Type detection for requests
    Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

    go-chi/render#3 · 3 comments ·

  • Missing a generic "Render" like unrolled/render
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    go-chi/render#2 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·

  • Routing and rendering based on media type/content type negotiation
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

    go-chi/render#1 ·

  • Any concern render.JSON() can leak internal errors to outside?
    Possibly taken @team-humaki claimed this 47 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    go-chi/render#57 ·

  • render.Render() writes to writer unexpected data of aliased type
    Possibly taken @team-humaki claimed this 46 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

    go-chi/render#56 ·

  • DecodeJSON accepts "{}\n some garbage data" incorrectly
    Possibly taken @team-humaki claimed this 49 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

    go-chi/render#42 · 4 comments · 3 reactions ·

  • `Bind` not getting called on structs inside a slice
    Possibly taken @team-humaki claimed this 47 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

    go-chi/render#37 · 2 comments · 2 reactions ·

  • Using render.JSON with no http Request object throws an error
    Possibly taken @team-humaki claimed this 46 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

    go-chi/render#28 ·

  • Allow custom Content-Type for render.Data
    Possibly taken @AdamMagued claimed this 30 days ago. Open

    Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

    go-chi/render#16 · 1 comment · 2 reactions ·

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