diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d1112f1..cc11db8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 * [x] Middleware support. All [alice](https://github.com/justinas/alice) compatible Middleware works out of the box
 * [x] Gopher spirit (write golang, use all the golang libraries you like)
 * [x] Lightweight. Only MVC
-* [x] Multiple configuration files support (currently json, yaml and toml)
+* [x] Multiple configuration files support (currently json, yaml, toml and hcl)
 
 
 
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ I have included three configuration files to show how they work, but you are bet
 ## Configurations
 utron support yaml, json and toml configurations files. In our todo app, we put the configuration files in the config directory. I have included all three formats for clarity, you can be just fine with either one of them.
 
-`utron` searches for a file named `app.json`, or `app.yml` or `app.toml` in the config directory. The first to be found is the one to be used.
+`utron` searches for a file named `app.json`, or `app.yml`, `app.toml`, `app.hcl` in the config directory. The first to be found is the one to be used.
 
 This is the content of `config/app.json` file:
 
diff --git a/config.go b/config.go
index 27e1b3c..597630d 100644
--- a/config.go
+++ b/config.go
@@ -14,20 +14,21 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/BurntSushi/toml"
 	"github.com/fatih/camelcase"
+	"github.com/hashicorp/hcl"
 	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
 )
 
 // Config stores configurations values
 type Config struct {
-	AppName      string `json:"app_name" yaml:"app_name" toml:"app_name"`
-	BaseURL      string `json:"base_url" yaml:"base_url" toml:"base_url"`
-	Port         int    `json:"port" yaml:"port" toml:"port"`
-	Verbose      bool   `json:"verbose" yaml:"verbose" toml:"verbose"`
-	StaticDir    string `json:"static_dir" yaml:"static_dir" toml:"static_dir"`
-	ViewsDir     string `json:"view_dir" yaml:"view_dir" toml:"view_dir"`
-	Database     string `json:"database" yaml:"database" toml:"database"`
-	DatabaseConn string `json:"database_conn" yaml:"database_conn" toml:"database_conn"`
-	Automigrate  bool   `json:"automigrate" yaml:"automigrate" toml:"automigrate"`
+	AppName      string `json:"app_name" yaml:"app_name" toml:"app_name" hcl:"app_name"`
+	BaseURL      string `json:"base_url" yaml:"base_url" toml:"base_url" hcl:"base_url"`
+	Port         int    `json:"port" yaml:"port" toml:"port" hcl:"port"`
+	Verbose      bool   `json:"verbose" yaml:"verbose" toml:"verbose" hcl:"verbose"`
+	StaticDir    string `json:"static_dir" yaml:"static_dir" toml:"static_dir" hcl:"static_dir"`
+	ViewsDir     string `json:"view_dir" yaml:"view_dir" toml:"view_dir" hcl:"view_dir"`
+	Database     string `json:"database" yaml:"database" toml:"database" hcl:"database"`
+	DatabaseConn string `json:"database_conn" yaml:"database_conn" toml:"database_conn" hcl:"database_conn"`
+	Automigrate  bool   `json:"automigrate" yaml:"automigrate" toml:"automigrate" hcl:"automigrate"`
 }
 
 // DefaultConfig returns the default configuration settings.
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ func DefaultConfig() *Config {
 //	* .json    - is decoded as json
 //	* .yml     - is decoded as yaml
 //	* .toml    - is decoded as toml
+//  * .hcl	   - is decoded as hcl
 func NewConfig(path string) (*Config, error) {
 	_, err := os.Stat(path)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -75,7 +77,14 @@ func NewConfig(path string) (*Config, error) {
 		if yerr != nil {
 			return nil, yerr
 		}
-
+	case ".hcl":
+		obj, herr := hcl.Parse(string(data))
+		if herr != nil {
+			return nil, herr
+		}
+		if herr = hcl.DecodeObject(&cfg, obj); herr != nil {
+			return nil, herr
+		}
 	default:
 		return nil, errors.New("utron: config file format not supported")
 	}
@@ -110,7 +119,6 @@ func (c *Config) saveToFile(path string) error {
 			return err
 		}
 		data = b.Bytes()
-
 	}
 	return ioutil.WriteFile(path, data, 0600)
 }
diff --git a/config_test.go b/config_test.go
index ffbe490..0f65e4c 100644
--- a/config_test.go
+++ b/config_test.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ func TestConfig(t *testing.T) {
 		"fixtures/config/app.json",
 		"fixtures/config/app.yml",
 		"fixtures/config/app.toml",
+		"fixtures/config/app.hcl",
 	}
 
 	cfg := DefaultConfig()
diff --git a/fixtures/config/app.hcl b/fixtures/config/app.hcl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..55ab6d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fixtures/config/app.hcl
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+app_name = "utron web app"
+base_url = "http://localhost:8090"
+port = 8090
+verbose = false
+static_dir = "fixtures/static"
+view_dir = "fixtures/view"
+database = ""
+database_conn = ""
+automigrate = true
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/fixtures/config/routes.hcl b/fixtures/config/routes.hcl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..88874c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fixtures/config/routes.hcl
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+routes = [
+    "get,post;/hello;Sample.Hello",
+    "get,post;/about;Hello.About"
+]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/routes.go b/routes.go
index dadddd2..3dc2707 100644
--- a/routes.go
+++ b/routes.go
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/BurntSushi/toml"
 	"github.com/gernest/ita"
 	"github.com/gorilla/mux"
+	"github.com/hashicorp/hcl"
 	"github.com/justinas/alice"
 	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
 )
@@ -415,7 +416,7 @@ type routeFile struct {
 //		]
 //	}
 //
-// supported formats are json,toml and yaml with extension .json, .toml and .yml respectively.
+// supported formats are json, toml, yaml and hcl with extension .json, .toml, .yml and .hcl respectively.
 //
 //TODO refactor the decoding part to a separate function? This part shares the same logic as the
 // one found in NewConfig()
@@ -441,6 +442,14 @@ func (r *Router) LoadRoutesFile(file string) error {
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
+	case ".hcl":
+		obj, err := hcl.Parse(string(data))
+		if err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if err = hcl.DecodeObject(&rFile, obj); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
 	default:
 		return errors.New("utron: unsupported file format")
 	}
@@ -461,8 +470,9 @@ func (r *Router) LoadRoutesFile(file string) error {
 //	* routes.json
 //	* routes.toml
 //	* routes.yml
+// 	* routes.hcl
 func (r *Router) loadRoutes(cfgPath string) {
-	exts := []string{".json", ".toml", ".yml"}
+	exts := []string{".json", ".toml", ".yml", ".hcl"}
 	rFile := "routes"
 	for _, ext := range exts {
 		file := filepath.Join(cfgPath, rFile+ext)
diff --git a/routes_test.go b/routes_test.go
index bc03ec5..8c8cf93 100644
--- a/routes_test.go
+++ b/routes_test.go
@@ -92,31 +92,39 @@ func TestRouteField(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestRoutesFile(t *testing.T) {
-	file := "fixtures/config/routes.json"
-	r := NewRouter()
 
-	err := r.LoadRoutesFile(file)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Error(err)
+	routeFiles := []string{
+		"fixtures/config/routes.json",
+		"fixtures/config/routes.hcl",
 	}
-	if len(r.routes) != 2 {
-		t.Errorf("expcted 2 got %d", len(r.routes))
-	}
-	_ = r.Add(NewSample())
 
-	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "/hello", nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Error(err)
-	}
-	w := httptest.NewRecorder()
-	r.ServeHTTP(w, req)
+	for _, file := range routeFiles {
+		r := NewRouter()
 
-	if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
-		t.Errorf("expected %d got %d", http.StatusOK, w.Code)
-	}
-	if w.Body.String() != msg {
-		t.Errorf("expected %s got %s", msg, w.Body.String())
+		err := r.LoadRoutesFile(file)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Error(err)
+		}
+		if len(r.routes) != 2 {
+			t.Errorf("expcted 2 got %d", len(r.routes))
+		}
+		_ = r.Add(NewSample())
+
+		req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "/hello", nil)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Error(err)
+		}
+		w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+		r.ServeHTTP(w, req)
+
+		if w.Code != http.StatusOK {
+			t.Errorf("expected %d got %d", http.StatusOK, w.Code)
+		}
+		if w.Body.String() != msg {
+			t.Errorf("expected %s got %s", msg, w.Body.String())
+		}
 	}
+
 }
 
 func TestSplitRoutes(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/utron.go b/utron.go
index 08c2c5a..d637404 100644
--- a/utron.go
+++ b/utron.go
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ func loadConfig(cfg ...string) (*Config, error) {
 
 // findConfigFile finds the configuration file name in the directory dir.
 func findConfigFile(dir string, name string) (file string, err error) {
-	extensions := []string{".json", ".toml", ".yml"}
+	extensions := []string{".json", ".toml", ".yml", ".hcl"}
 
 	for _, ext := range extensions {
 		file = filepath.Join(dir, name)