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Buffalo

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

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 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.

Identity

Status
Active
Maintainer
Mark Bates4
First release
20168

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Always on6
Install with
pre-built release archive or build from source5

Releases

Current major version
19
Last release
2026-03-209

Adoption

GitHub stars
8,4242
Contributors
14310

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-10-24: links, Categories, Templating, Databases
    gobuffalo.io/
  2. 2026-10-24: links, Written in, License, GitHub stars
    api.github.com/repos/gobuffalo/buffalo
  3. 2026-10-24: links
    gobuffalo.io/documentation/
  4. 2026-10-24: Maintainer, License model
    raw.githubusercontent.com/gobuffalo/buffalo/main/LICENSE.txt
  5. 2026-10-24: Runtime, Install with
    gobuffalo.io/documentation/getting_started/installation/
  6. 2026-10-24: Runs as
    gobuffalo.io/documentation/deploy/proxy/
  7. 2026-10-24: Multilingual
    gobuffalo.io/documentation/guides/localization/
  8. 2026-10-24: First release
    api.github.com/repos/gobuffalo/buffalo/tags
  9. 2026-10-24: Current major version, Last release
    api.github.com/repos/gobuffalo/buffalo/releases
  10. 2026-10-24: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/gobuffalo/buffalo/contributors?per_page=1

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