Files
dance-lessons-coach/adr/0002-chi-router.md
Gabriel Radureau db09d0ace1 📝 docs(adr): homogenize all 23 ADR headers to canonical format
Audit 2026-05-02 (Tâche 6 Phase A) had identified 3 inconsistent
formats across the ADR corpus :
- F1 list bullets : `* Status:` / `* Date:` / `* Deciders:` (11 ADRs)
- F2 bold fields : `**Status:**` / `**Date:**` / `**Authors:**` (9 ADRs)
- F3 dedicated section : `## Status\n**Value** ` (5 ADRs)

Mixed metadata names (Authors / Deciders / Decision Date / Implementation
Date / Implementation Status / Last Updated) and decorative emojis on
status values made the corpus hard to scan or template against.

Canonical format adopted (see adr/README.md for full template) :
    # NN. Title

    **Status:** <Proposed|Accepted|Implemented|Partially Implemented|
                  Approved|Rejected|Deferred|Deprecated|Superseded by ADR-NNNN>
    **Date:** YYYY-MM-DD
    **Authors:** Name(s)
    [optional **Field:** ... lines]

    ## Context...

Transformations applied (via /tmp/homogenize-adrs.py) :
- F1 list bullets → bold fields
- F2 cleanup : `**Deciders:**` → `**Authors:**`, strip status emojis
- F3 sections : `## Status\n**Value** ` → `**Status:** Value`
- Strip decorative emojis from `**Status:**` and `**Implementation Status:**`
- Convert any `* Implementation Status:` / `* Last Updated:` /
  `* Decision Drivers:` / `* Decision Date:` to bold equivalents
- Date typo fix : `2024-04-XX` → `2026-04-XX` for ADRs 0018, 0019
  (already noted in PR #17 but here re-applied since branch starts
  from origin/main pre-PR17)
- Normalize multiple blank lines after header (max 1)

21 / 23 ADRs modified. 0010 and 0012 were already conform.
0011 and 0014 do not exist in the repo (cf. README index update).

Body content of each ADR is preserved unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-03 00:27:42 +02:00

2.1 KiB

Use Chi router for HTTP routing

Status: Accepted Authors: Gabriel Radureau, AI Agent Date: 2026-04-02

Context and Problem Statement

We needed to choose an HTTP router for the dance-lessons-coach web service that provides:

  • Good performance characteristics
  • Flexible routing capabilities
  • Middleware support
  • Active maintenance and community support
  • Compatibility with our interface-based design

Decision Drivers

  • Need for performant HTTP routing
  • Desire for clean, idiomatic Go API
  • Requirement for middleware support
  • Long-term maintainability
  • Good documentation and examples

Considered Options

  • Chi router - Lightweight, fast router with good middleware support
  • Gorilla Mux - Well-established but heavier
  • Gin - High performance but more opinionated
  • Standard library - Simple but limited features

Decision Outcome

Chosen option: "Chi router" because it provides excellent performance, clean API, good middleware support, and active maintenance while remaining lightweight and unopinionated.

Pros and Cons of the Options

Chi router

  • Good, because lightweight and fast
  • Good, because excellent middleware support
  • Good, because clean, idiomatic Go API
  • Good, because actively maintained
  • Good, because good documentation and examples
  • Bad, because slightly less feature-rich than some alternatives

Gorilla Mux

  • Good, because very mature and stable
  • Good, because feature-rich
  • Bad, because heavier and more complex
  • Bad, because less performant than Chi

Gin

  • Good, because extremely high performance
  • Good, because good ecosystem
  • Bad, because more opinionated framework
  • Bad, because different from standard library patterns

Standard library

  • Good, because no external dependencies
  • Good, because simple and familiar
  • Bad, because limited routing capabilities
  • Bad, because no built-in middleware support