What is this?
GoFrame is a development framework for Go: you build your backend projects on top of its modules instead of assembling everything yourself. The README bills it as a way to develop faster, easier and more efficiently.
Is it a framework I code against, or an app I install?
A framework — a set of Go modules you import into your own project, not an end-user application. The repository itself is written entirely in Go.
How do I get it into my project?
Via the Installation section, which points to the official docs: as a Go module dependency of your project, following the standard go get workflow.
What do I need to have installed to work with it?
Just the Go toolchain. The repository itself builds with a Makefile and runs its CI on GitHub Actions with docker-compose, but as a consumer you only write Go.
Is the documentation only in Chinese?
No — docs ship in English and Chinese: an official English site alongside the original, mirror sites, downloadable offline docs, and a GoDoc API reference.
Can I use it in commercial work?
Yes — it is MIT licensed, and the README commits to it staying 100% free and open-source forever.
What does it include besides the core framework?
Per its GitHub topics it bundles an ORM, logging, and OpenTelemetry-based tracing and observability, and it targets microservice development with Kubernetes deployment in mind.
Is GoFrame a mature project or a new experiment?
It has been on GitHub since 2017 and collected over 13,000 stars; the repo runs CI pipelines with CodeQL security scanning and enforced code formatting.
Which topics is it in?
microservice, tracing, opentelemetry, logging, orm, web-framework, observability, golang, kubernetes, docker-compose, developers, backend