What's up Chi Gang. I have a question about middlewares

[placid haven]

When building API using chi, which middleware are you guys using for logging, rate limiting, jwt, and stuff like that?
do you just use the middleware.logger and the httprate ?

I was trying to implement these from scratch but it's taking me so long to get it to a level where I am confident enough to push it into production. And then I realized, chi has all these other packages and middlewares.

Do you use these or do you guys use something else?
https://github.com/go-chi/cors
https://github.com/go-chi/httplog

https://github.com/go-chi/jwtauth

https://github.com/go-chi/httprate
https://github.com/go-chi/httprate-redis

https://github.com/go-chi/docgen
https://github.com/go-chi/metrics

What's up Chi Gang. I have a question about middlewares

[rough maple]

yeah they got some good middlewares. I use the freakin' timeout middleware yo

[placid haven]

do you use the normal logger middleware or the httplog one?

you cannot control log level for the the normal logger middlware,

The httplog use go's "slog" and while you can control log level with it, I kinda don't like how it's formatted as key/value

[rough maple]

yeah i just use slog

[placid haven]

fair... stdlib enjoyer

[proud hemlock]

What's to dislike about the key-value output?

[placid haven]

Probably just personal preference, I haven't been doing this long enough to see why it needs to be in that format. And I'm used to just seeing plain TIME METHOD CODE MESSAGE DURATION values without keys...

[placid haven]

Is there actually a benefit to it that I don't know about yet?

[proud hemlock]

It adds structure to your output and it becomes easier to search as well as index and filter log entries based on any of the attributes.

So if you leave the message static, it becomes possible for you to find all occurrences of it and find out each detail, or find all log entries with a specific attribute, making it possible for you to find log entries associated with the thing you're investigating.

There's nothing worse than searching through a log that is not structured.

[storm heath]

well there is one thing worse; no logs to look at