# Buffalo

Go web development framework and toolkit that generates and runs web applications with routing, a database layer and templates.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/buffalo/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-24
Listed since: 2026-10-24

## Record

### Links

- home: https://gobuffalo.io/
- repository: https://github.com/gobuffalo/buffalo
- docs: https://gobuffalo.io/documentation/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Mark Bates
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2016
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: framework
- hosting: binary
- language: go
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: mysql, mariadb, postgres, sqlite
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: plush, html/template
- i18n: yes, translations through go-i18n

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: pre-built release archive or build from source

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-03-20

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 8424
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 143
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://gobuffalo.io/ (read 2026-10-24)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/gobuffalo/buffalo (read 2026-10-24)
- urls: https://gobuffalo.io/documentation/ (read 2026-10-24)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gobuffalo/buffalo/main/LICENSE.txt (read 2026-10-24)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/gobuffalo/buffalo (read 2026-10-24)
- category: https://gobuffalo.io/ (read 2026-10-24)
- runtime: https://gobuffalo.io/documentation/getting_started/installation/ (read 2026-10-24)
- installMethod: https://gobuffalo.io/documentation/getting_started/installation/ (read 2026-10-24)
- templating: https://gobuffalo.io/ (read 2026-10-24)
- templating: https://gobuffalo.io/ (read 2026-10-24)
- databases: https://gobuffalo.io/ (read 2026-10-24)
- runsAs: https://gobuffalo.io/documentation/deploy/proxy/ (read 2026-10-24)
- i18n: https://gobuffalo.io/documentation/guides/localization/ (read 2026-10-24)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/gobuffalo/buffalo (read 2026-10-24)
- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gobuffalo/buffalo/main/LICENSE.txt (read 2026-10-24)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/gobuffalo/buffalo/tags (read 2026-10-24)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/gobuffalo/buffalo/releases (read 2026-10-24)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/gobuffalo/buffalo/releases (read 2026-10-24)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/gobuffalo/buffalo (read 2026-10-24)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/gobuffalo/buffalo/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-24)

## Notes

Buffalo is a web development framework and toolkit written in Go. It generates a project with the front end and the back end set up together, and projects use Plush templates, with html/template as an option. The supported databases are MySQL and MariaDB, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB and SQLite, and the localization guide describes translations through go-i18n. The project is installed from a pre-built release archive or from source. The build command packs the application into a single binary, and the [deployment guide](https://gobuffalo.io/documentation/deploy/systemd/) runs that binary as a systemd service that starts a process. Mark Bates holds the copyright under the MIT License.

## Worth knowing

The homepage and the installation page name an older Go release than the one the module file of the latest release requires.

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