Package restlayer is an API framework heavily inspired by the excellent Python Eve (http://python-eve.org/). It helps you create a comprehensive, customizable, and secure REST (graph) API on top of pluggable backend storages with no boiler plate code so can focus on your business logic. Implemented as a net/http middleware, it plays well with other middleware like CORS (http://github.com/rs/cors) and is net/context aware thanks to xhandler. REST Layer is an opinionated framework. Unlike many API frameworks, you don’t directly control the routing and you don’t have to write handlers. You just define resources and sub-resources with a schema, the framework automatically figures out what routes to generate behind the scene. You don’t have to take care of the HTTP headers and response, JSON encoding, etc. either. REST layer handles HTTP conditional requests, caching, integrity checking for you. A powerful and extensible validation engine make sure that data comes pre-validated to your custom storage handlers. Generic resource handlers for MongoDB (http://github.com/rs/rest-layer-mongo), ElasticSearch (http://github.com/rs/rest-layer-es) and other databases are also available so you have few to no code to write to make the whole system work. Moreover, REST Layer let you create a graph API by linking resources between them. Thanks to its advanced field selection syntax (and coming support of GraphQL), you can gather resources and their dependencies in a single request, saving you from costly network roundtrips. REST Layer is composed of several sub-packages: See https://github.com/rs/rest-layer/blob/master/README.md for full REST Layer documentation.