A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-python.
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- Audio & Music
- Authentication & OAuth
- Command Line
- Configuration
- Continuous Integration
- CSS Preprocessors
- Data Structures
- Database
- Database Drivers
- Date & Time
- Distributed Systems
- Embeddable Scripting Languages
- Financial
- Forms
- Game Development
- Generation & Generics
- Go Compilers
- Goroutines
- GUI
- Hardware
- Images
- Logging
- Machine Learning
- Messaging
- Miscellaneous
- Natural Language Processing
- Networking
- OpenGL
- ORM
- Package Management
- Query Language
- Resource Embedding
- Science and Data Analysis
- Security
- Serialization
- Template Engines
- Testing
- Text Processing
- Third-party APIs
- Utilities
- Validation
- Version Control
- Video
- Web Frameworks
- Windows
Libraries for manipulating audio.
- flac - A native Go FLAC decoder.
- flac - A native Go FLAC decoder.
- gaad - A native Go AAC bitstream parser
- go-sox - libsox bindings for go.
- go_mediainfo - libmediainfo bindings for go.
- id3v2 - Fast and stable ID3 parsing and writing library for Go
- mix - Sequence-based Go-native audio mixer for music apps.
- mp3 - A native Go MP3 decoder.
- music-theory - Music theory models in Go.
- PortAudio - Go bindings for the PortAudio audio I/O library.
- portmidi - Go bindings for PortMidi.
- taglib - Go bindings for taglib.
- vorbis - A "native" Go Vorbis decoder (uses CGO, but has no dependencies).
- waveform - Go package capable of generating waveform images from audio streams.
Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.
- authboss - A modular authentication system for the web. It tries to remove as much boilerplate and "hard things" as possible so that each time you start a new web project in Go, you can plug it in, configure, and start building your app without having to build an authentication system each time.
- Go-AWS-Auth - AWS (Amazon Web Services) request signing library.
- go-jose - A fairly complete implementation of the JOSE working group's JSON Web Token, JSON Web Signatures, and JSON Web Encryption specs.
- go-oauth2-server - A standalone, specification-compliant, OAuth2 server written in Golang.
- go.auth - Authentication API for Go web applications.
- gologin - chainable handlers for login with OAuth1 and OAuth2 authentication providers.
- gorbac - provides a lightweight role-based access control (RBAC) implementation in Golang.
- goth - provides a simple, clean, and idiomatic way to use OAuth and OAuth2. Handles multiple provides out of the box.
- httpauth - HTTP Authentication middleware.
- jwt - A clean and easy to use implmentatino of JSON Web Tokens (JWT).
- jwt-go - Golang implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT).
- oauth2 - Successor of goauth2. Generic OAuth 2.0 package that comes with JWT, Google APIs, Compute Engine and App Engine support.
- osin - Golang OAuth2 server library.
- permissions2 - Library for keeping track of users, login states and permissions. Uses secure cookies and bcrypt.
- yubigo - a Yubikey client package that provides a simple API to integrate the Yubico Yubikey into a go application.
Libraries for building standard or basic Command Line applications
- cli - A feature-rich and easy to use command-line package based on golang tag
- cli-init - The easy way to start building Golang command line application.
- climax - An alternative CLI with "human face", in spirit of Go command
- cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions
- docopt.go - A command-line arguments parser that will make you smile.
- go-arg - Struct-based argument parsing in Go
- go-flags - go command line option parser
- kingpin - A command line and flag parser supporting sub commands.
- liner - A Go readline-like library for command-line interfaces.
- mitchellh/cli - A Go library for implementing command-line interfaces.
- mow.cli - A Go library for building CLI applications with sophisticated flag and argument parsing and validation.
- readline - A pure golang implementation that provide most of features in GNU-Readline under MIT license.
- ukautz/clif - A small command line interface framework.
- urfave/cli - A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go (formerly codegangsta/cli).
- wlog - A simple logging interface that supports cross-platform color and concurrency.
- wmenu - An easy to use menu structure for cli applications that prompts users to make choices.
Libraries for building Console Applications and Console User Interfaces
- chalk - Intuitive package for prettifying terminal/console output.
- color - Versatile package for colored terminal output.
- colourize - Go library for ANSI colour text in terminals.
- go-colortext - Go library for color output in terminals.
- gocui - Minimalist Go library aimed at creating Console User Interfaces.
- gommon/color - Style terminal text.
- termbox-go - Termbox is a library for creating cross-platform text-based interfaces.
- termtables - A Go port of the Ruby library terminal-tables for simple ASCII table generation as well as providing markdown and HTML output
- termui - Go terminal dashboard based on termbox-go and inspired by blessed-contrib.
- uilive - A library for updating terminal output in realtime.
- uiprogress - A flexible library to render progress bars in terminal applications.
- uitable - A library to improve readability in terminal apps using tabular data.
Libraries for configuration parsing
- config - JSON or YAML configuration wrapper with environment variables and flags parsing.
- configure - Provides configuration through multiple sources, including JSON, flags and environment variables.
- env - Parse environment variables to Go structs (with defaults).
- envcfg - Un-marshaling environment variables to Go structs.
- envconf - Configuration from environment
- envconfig - Read your configuration from environment variables.
- gcfg - read INI-style configuration files into Go structs; supports user-defined types and subsections
- gofigure - Go application configuration made easy
- hjson - Human JSON, a configuration file format for humans. Relaxed syntax, fewer mistakes, more comments.
- ingo - Flags persisted in an ini-like config file
- ini - Go package for read and write INI files
- mini - A golang package for parsing ini-style configuration files
- store - A lightweight configuration manager for Go
- viper - Go configuration with fangs
Tools for help with continuous integration
- drone - Drone is a Continuous Integration platform built on Docker, written in Go
- goveralls - Go integration for Coveralls.io continuous code coverage tracking system.
- overalls - Multi-Package go project coverprofile for tools like goveralls
Libraries for preprocessing CSS files
- c6 - High performance SASS compatible-implementation compiler written in Go
- gcss - Pure Go CSS Preprocessor.
- go-libsass - Go wrapper to the 100% Sass compatible libsass project.
Generic datastructures and algorithms in Go.
- binpacker - Binary packer and unpacker helps user build custom binary stream.
- bitset - Go package implementing bitsets.
- bloom - Bloom filters implemented in Go.
- boomfilters - Probabilistic data structures for processing continuous, unbounded streams
- count-min-log - A Go implementation Count-Min-Log sketch: Approximately counting with approximate counters (Like Count-Min sketch but using less memory).
- cuckoofilter - Cuckoo filter: a good alternative to a counting bloom filter implemented in Go.
- encoding - Integer Compression Libraries for Go.
- go-adaptive-radix-tree - A Go implementation of Adaptive Radix Tree.
- go-datastructures - A collection of useful, performant, and thread-safe data structures
- go-geoindex - In-memory geo index.
- gods - Go Data Structures. Containers, Sets, Lists, Stacks, Maps, BidiMaps, Trees, HashSet etc.
- golang-set - Thread-Safe and Non-Thread-Safe high-performance sets for Go.
- goskiplist - A skip list implementation in Go.
- hilbert - Go package for mapping values to and from space-filling curves, such as Hilbert and Peano curves.
- levenshtein - Implementation to calculate levenshtein distance in Go.
- mafsa - MA-FSA implementation with Minimal Perfect Hashing
- roaring - Go package implementing compressed bitsets.
- skiplist - Skiplist implementation in Go
- trie - Trie implementation in Go
- ttlcache - An in-memory LRU string-interface{} map with expiration for golang
- willf/bloom - Go package implementing Bloom filters.
Databases implemented in Go.
- BigCache - Efficient key/value cache for gigabytes of data.
- bolt - A low-level key/value database for Go.
- buntdb - A fast, embeddable, in-memory key/value database for Go with custom indexing and spatial support.
- cache2go - An in-memory key:value cache which supports automatic invalidation based on timeouts.
- cockroach - A Scalable, Geo-Replicated, Transactional Datastore
- couchcache - A RESTful caching micro-service backed by Couchbase server.
- dgraph - Scalable, Distributed, Low Latency, High Throughput Graph Database.
- diskv - A home-grown disk-backed key-value store.
- eliasdb - Dependency-free, transactional graph database with REST API, phrase search and SQL-like query language.
- forestdb - Go bindings for ForestDB.
- GCache - Cache library with support for expirable Cache, LFU, LRU and ARC.
- geocache - An in-memory cache that is suitable for geolocation based applications.
- go-cache - An in-memory key:value store/cache (similar to Memcached) library for Go, suitable for single-machine applications.
- goleveldb - An implementation of the LevelDB key/value database in the Go.
- groupcache - Groupcache is a caching and cache-filling library, intended as a replacement for memcached in many cases.
- influxdb - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
- ledisdb - Ledisdb is a high performance NoSQL like Redis based on LevelDB.
- levigo - Levigo is a Go wrapper for LevelDB.
- prometheus - Monitoring system and time series database.
- rqlite - Replicated SQLite, using Raft consensus.
- tidb - TiDB is a distributed SQL database. Inspired by the design of Google F1.
- tiedot - Your NoSQL database powered by Golang.
- Tile38 - A geolocation DB with spatial index and realtime geofencing.
Database schema migration.
- goose - Database migration tool. You can manage your database's evolution by creating incremental SQL or Go scripts.
- gormigrate - Database schema migration helper for Gorm ORM.
- migrate - Database migration handling in Golang support MySQL,PostgreSQL,Cassandra and SQLite.
- pravasan - Simple Migration tool - currently for MySQL but planning to support soon for Postgres, SQLite, MongoDB, etc.,
- sql-migrate - Database migration tool. Allows embedding migrations into the application using go-bindata.
Database tools.
- go-mysql - A go toolset to handle MySQL protocol and replication.
- go-mysql-elasticsearch - Sync your MySQL data into Elasticsearch automatically.
- kingshard - kingshard is a high performance proxy for MySQL powered by Golang.
- myreplication - MySql binary log replication listener. Support statement and row based replication.
- orchestrator - MySQL replication topology manager & visualizer
- pgweb - A web-based PostgreSQL database browser
- vitess - vitess provides servers and tools which facilitate scaling of MySQL databases for large scale web services.
SQL query builder, libraries for building and using SQL.
- dat - Go Postgres Data Access Toolkit
- Dotsql - Go library that helps you keep sql files in one place and use it with ease.
- goqu - An idiomatic SQL builder and query library.
- igor - Abstraction layer for PostgreSQL that supports advanced functionality and uses gorm-like syntax.
- ozzo-dbx - Powerful data retrieval methods as well as DB-agnostic query building capabilities.
- scaneo - Generate Go code to convert database rows into arbitrary structs.
- sqrl - SQL query builder, fork of Squirrel with improved performance.
- Squirrel - Go library that helps you build SQL queries.
- xo - Generate idiomatic Go code for databases based on existing schema definitions or custom queries supporting PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.
Libraries for connecting and operating databases.
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Relational Databases
- bgc - Datastore Connectivity for BigQuery for go.
- firebirdsql - Firebird RDBMS SQL driver for Go
- go-adodb - Microsoft ActiveX Object DataBase driver for go that using database/sql.
- go-bqstreamer - BigQuery fast and concurrent stream insert.
- go-mssqldb - Microsoft MSSQL driver prototype in go language.
- go-oci8 - Oracle driver for go that using database/sql.
- go-sql-driver/mysql - MySQL driver for Go.
- go-sqlite3 - SQLite3 driver for go that using database/sql.
- gofreetds Microsoft MSSQL driver. Go wrapper over FreeTDS.
- pgx - PostgreSQL driver supporting features beyond those exposed by database/sql.
- pq - Pure Go Postgres driver for database/sql.
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NoSQL Databases
- aerospike-client-go - Aerospike client in Go language.
- arangolite - Lightweight golang driver for ArangoDB.
- asc - Datastore Connectivity for Aerospike for go.
- cayley - A graph database with support for multiple backends.
- dsc - Datastore connectivity for SQL, NoSQL, structured files.
- dynago - Dynago is a principle of least surprise client for DynamoDB
- go-couchbase - Couchbase client in Go
- go-couchdb - Yet another CouchDB HTTP API wrapper for Go
- gocb - Official Couchbase Go SDK
- gocql - A Go language driver for Apache Cassandra.
- gomemcache - memcache client library for the Go programming language.
- gorethink - Go language driver for RethinkDB
- goriak - Go language driver for Riak KV
- mgo - MongoDB driver for the Go language that implements a rich and well tested selection of features under a very simple API following standard Go idioms.
- neo4j - Neo4j Rest API Bindings for Golang
- Neo4j-GO - Neo4j REST Client in golang.
- neoism - Neo4j client for Golang
- redigo - Redigo is a Go client for the Redis database.
- redis - Redis client for Golang
- redis - A simple, powerful Redis client for Go.
- redis - Redis-protocol compatible TCP servers/services.
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Search and Analytic Databases
Libraries for working with dates and times.
- carbon - A simple Time extension with a lot of util methods, ported from PHP Carbon library.
- durafmt - A time duration formatting library for Go.
- go-persian-calendar - The implementation of the Persian (Solar Hijri) Calendar in Go (golang).
- goweek - Library for working with week entity in golang.
- now - Now is a time toolkit for golang.
- NullTime - Nullable time.Time
- timeutil - Useful extensions (Timedelta, Strftime, ...) to the golang's time package.
Packages that help with building Distributed Systems.
- celeriac - A library for adding support for interacting and monitoring Celery workers, tasks and events in Go
- flowgraph - MPI-style ready-send coordination layer.
- glow - Easy-to-Use scalable distributed big data processing, Map-Reduce, DAG execution, all in pure Go.
- go-jump - A port of Google's "Jump" Consistent Hash function.
- gorpc - Simple, fast and scalable RPC library for high load.
- grpc-go - The Go language implementation of gRPC. HTTP/2 based RPC.
- hprose - A very newbility RPC Library, support 25+ languages now.
- jsonrpc - The jsonrpc package helps implement of JSON-RPC 2.0.
- micro - A pluggable microservice toolkit and distributed systems platform.
- NATS - A lightweight, high performance messaging system for microservices, IoT, and cloud native systems.
- raft - Golang implementation of the Raft consensus protocol, by HashiCorp.
- raft - Go implementation of the Raft consensus protocol, by CoreOS.
- rpcx - A distributed pluggable RPC service framework like alibaba Dubbo.
- sleuth - A library for master-less p2p auto-discovery and RPC between HTTP services (using ZeroMQ).
- tendermint - High-performance middleware for transforming a state machine written in any programming language into a Byzantine Fault Tolerant replicated state machine using the Tendermint consensus and blockchain protocols.
- torrent - BitTorrent client package.
- dht - BitTorrent Kademlia DHT implementation.
- go-peerflix - Video streaming torrent client.
Libraries that implement email creation and sending
- douceur - CSS inliner for your HTML emails.
- email - A robust and flexible email library for Go.
- go-dkim - A DKIM library, to sign & verify email.
- go-imap - An IMAP library for clients and servers
- Gomail - Gomail is a very simple and powerful package to send emails.
- Hectane - Lightweight SMTP client providing an HTTP API
- MailHog - Email and SMTP testing with web and API interface
- SendGrid - SendGrid's Go library for sending email
- smtp - SMTP server protocol state machine
Embedding other languages inside your go code
- agora - Dynamically typed, embeddable programming language in Go
- anko - Scriptable interpreter written in Go
- gisp - Simple LISP in Go
- go-duktape - Duktape JavaScript engine bindings for Go
- go-lua - A port of the Lua 5.2 VM to pure Go
- go-php - PHP bindings for Go
- go-python - naive go bindings to the CPython C-API
- golua - Go bindings for Lua C API
- gopher-lua - a Lua 5.1 VM and compiler written in Go
- ngaro - Embeddable Ngaro VM implementation enabling scripting in Retro
- otto - A JavaScript interpreter written in Go
- purl - Perl 5.18.2 embedded in Go
Packages for accounting and finance
- accounting - money and currency formatting for golang
- decimal - Arbitrary-precision fixed-point decimal numbers
- vat - VAT number validation & EU VAT rates
Libraries for working with forms.
- bind - Bind form data to any Go values
- binding - Binds form and JSON data from net/http Request to struct.
- conform - Keeps user input in check. Trims, sanitizes & scrubs data based on struct tags.
- form - Decodes url.Values into Go value(s) and Encodes Go value(s) into url.Values. Dual Array and Full map support.
- formam - decode form's values into a struct.
- forms - A framework-agnostic library for parsing and validating form/JSON data which supports multipart forms and files.
- gorilla/csrf - CSRF protection for Go web applications & services.
- nosurf - A CSRF protection middleware for Go.
Awesome game development libraries.
- Ebiten - A simple SNES-like 2D game library in Go
- engo - Engo is an open-source 2D game engine written in Go. It follows the Entity-Component-System paradigm.
- GarageEngine - 2d game engine written in Go working on OpenGL.
- glop - Glop (Game Library Of Power) is a fairly simple cross-platform game library.
- go-astar - Go implementation of the A* path finding algorithm
- go-collada - Go package for working with the Collada file format.
- go-sdl2 - Go bindings for the Simple DirectMedia Layer.
- go3d - A performance oriented 2D/3D math package for Go
- gonet - A game server skeleton implemented with golang
- Leaf - A lightweight game server framework
- termloop - Terminal-based game engine for Go, built on top of Termbox
Tools to enhance the language with features like generics via code generation
- gen - Code generation tool for ‘generics’-like functionality.
- go-linq - .NET LINQ-like query methods for Go.
- interfaces - Command line tool for generating interface definitions.
- pkgreflect - A Go preprocessor for package scoped reflection.
Tools for compiling Go to other languages
- gopherjs - A compiler from Go to JavaScript.
- llgo - LLVM-based compiler for Go.
- tardisgo - Golang to Haxe to CPP/CSharp/Java/JavaScript transpiler.
Tools for managing and working with Goroutines
- goworker - goworker is a Go-based background worker
- grpool - Lightweight Goroutine pool.
- pool - a limited consumer goroutine or unlimited goroutine pool for easier goroutine handling and cancellation.
- tunny - A goroutine pool for golang.
Libraries for building GUI Applications
- go-gtk - Go bindings for GTK
- go-qml - QML support for the Go language
- goqt - Golang bindings to the Qt cross-platform application framework.
- gosx-notifier - OSX Desktop Notifications library for Go.
- gotk3 - Go bindings for GTK3.
- qt - Qt binding for Go (support for Windows / macOS / Linux / Android / iOS / Sailfish OS / Raspberry Pi)
- sciter - Go bindings for Sciter: the Embeddable HTML/CSS/script engine for modern desktop UI development.
- systray - Cross platform Go library to place an icon and menu in the notification area
- trayhost - Cross-platform Go library to place an icon in the host operating system's taskbar.
- ui - Platform-native GUI library for Go.
- walk - Windows application library kit for Go.
Libraries, tools, and tutorials for interacting with hardware.
See go-hardware for a comprehensive list.
Libraries for manipulating images.
- bild - A collection of image processing algorithms in pure Go.
- bimg - Small package for fast and efficient image processing using libvips.
- geopattern - Create beautiful generative image patterns from a string.
- gg - 2D rendering in pure Go.
- gift - Package of image processing filters.
- go-cairo - Go binding for the cairo graphics library.
- go-gd - Go binding for GD library.
- go-nude - Nudity detection with Go.
- go-opencv - Go bindings for OpenCV.
- go-webcolors - Port of webcolors library from Python to Go.
- imagick - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API.
- imaginary - Fast and simple HTTP microservice for image resizing.
- imaging - Simple Go image processing package.
- img - A selection of image manipulation tools.
- ln - 3D line art rendering in Go.
- mpo - A decoder and conversion tool for MPO 3D Photos.
- picfit - An image resizing server written in Go.
- pt - A path tracing engine written in Go.
- resize - Image resizing for the Go with common interpolation methods.
- rez - Image resizing in pure Go and SIMD.
- smartcrop - Finds good crops for arbitrary images and crop sizes.
- svgo - Go Language Library for SVG generation.
- tga - Package tga is a TARGA image format decoder/encoder.
Libraries for generating and working with log files.
- glog - Leveled execution logs for Go.
- go-log - Log lib supports level and multi handlers.
- go-log - A log4j implementation in Go.
- go-logger - Simple logger of Go Programs, with level handlers.
- gologger - Simple easy to use log lib for go, logs in Colored Cosole, Simple Console, File or Elasticsearch.
- gone/log - Fast, extendable, full-featured, std-lib source compatible log library.
- log - Structured logging package for Go.
- log - Simple, configurable and scalable Structured Logging for Go.
- log-voyage - Full-featured logging saas written in golang.
- log15 - Simple, powerful logging for Go
- logex - An golang log lib, supports tracking and level, wrap by standard log lib
- logger - Minimalistic logging library for Go.
- logrus - a structured logger for Go.
- logrusly - logrus plug-in to send errors to a Loggly.
- logutils - Utilities for slightly better logging in Go (Golang) extending the standard logger.
- logxi - A 12-factor app logger that is fast and makes you happy.
- lumberjack - Simple rolling logger, implements io.WriteCloser.
- mlog - A simple logging module for go, with 5 levels, an optional rotating logfile feature and stdout/stderr output.
- ozzo-log - High performance logging supporting log severity, categorization, and filtering. Can send filtered log messages to various targets (e.g. console, network, mail).
- seelog - logging functionality with flexible dispatching, filtering, and formatting.
- slf - The Structured Logging Facade (SLF) for Go (like SLF4J but structured and for Go)
- slog - The reference implementation of the Structured Logging Facade (SLF) for Go
- stdlog - Stdlog is an object-oriented library providing leveled logging. It is very useful for cron jobs.
- tail - A Go package striving to emulate the features of the BSD tail program.
- xlog - A structured logger for
net/context
aware HTTP handlers with flexible dispatching. - zap - Fast, structured, leveled logging in Go.
Libraries for Machine Learning.
- bayesian - Naive Bayesian Classification for Golang.
- CloudForest - Fast, flexible, multi-threaded ensembles of decision trees for machine learning in pure Go.
- gago - Multi-population, flexible, parallel genetic algorithm.
- go-fann - Go bindings for Fast Artificial Neural Networks(FANN) library.
- go-galib - Genetic Algorithms library written in Go / golang
- go-pr - Pattern recognition package in Go lang.
- gobrain - Neural Networks written in go
- godist - Various probability distributions, and associated methods.
- goga - Genetic algorithm library for Go.
- GoLearn - General Machine Learning library for Go.
- golinear - liblinear bindings for Go
- goml - On-line Machine Learning in Go
- goRecommend - Recommendation Algorithms library written in Go.
- libsvm - libsvm golang version derived work based on LIBSVM 3.14.
- mlgo - This project aims to provide minimalistic machine learning algorithms in Go.
- neural-go - A multilayer perceptron network implemented in Go, with training via backpropagation.
- probab - Probability distribution functions. Bayesian inference. Written in pure Go.
- regommend - Recommendation & collaborative filtering engine
- shield - Bayesian text classifier with flexible tokenizers and storage backends for Go
Libraries that implement messaging systems
- Centrifugo - Real-time messaging (Websockets or SockJS) server in Go.
- dbus - Native Go bindings for D-Bus.
- emitter - Emits events using Go way, with wildcard, predicates, cancellation possibilities and many other good wins.
- EventBus - The lightweight event bus with async compatibility.
- go-longpoll - PubSub with long polling.
- go-notify - Native implementation of the freedesktop notification spec.
- go-nsq - the official Go package for NSQ
- gopush-cluster - gopush-cluster is a go push server cluster.
- gorush - A push notification server using APNs2 and google GCM.
- guble - A messaging server using push notifications (Google Firebase Cloud Messaging, Apple Push Notification services, SMS) as well as websockets, a REST API, featuring distributed operation and message-persistence.
- machinery - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
- mangos - Pure go implementation of the Nanomsg ("Scalable Protocols") with transport interoperability.
- NATS Go Client - A lightweight and high performance publish-subscribe and distributed queueing messaging system - this is the Go library.
- oplog - A generic oplog/replication system for REST APIs
- pubsub - A simple pubsub package for go.
- RapidMQ - RapidMQ is a lightweight and reliable library for managing of the local messages queue
- sarama - A Go library for Apache Kafka.
- Uniqush-Push - A redis backed unified push service for server-side notifications to mobile devices.
- zmq4 - A Go interface to ZeroMQ version 4. Also available for version 3 and version 2.
These libraries were placed here because none of the other categories seemed to fit
- afero - A FileSystem Abstraction System for Go.
- archiver - Library and command for making and extracting .zip and .tar.gz archives
- autoflags - Go package to automatically define command line flags from struct fields.
- banner - Add beautiful banners into your Go applications.
- battery - A cross-platform, normalized battery information library.
- bitio - Highly optimized bit-level Reader and Writer for Go.
- browscap_go - GoLang Library for Browser Capabilities Project.
- datacounter - Go counters for readers/writer/http.ResponseWriter.
- errors - A package that provides simple error handling primitives.
- go-chat-bot - IRC, Slack & Telegram bot written in Go.
- go-commons-pool - A generic object pool for Golang.
- go-multierror - A Go (golang) package for representing a list of errors as a single error.
- go-openapi - A collection of packages to parse and utilize open-api schemas
- go-shortid - Distributed generation of super short, unique, non-sequential, URL friendly IDs.
- gopsutil - A cross-platform library for retrieving process and system utilization(CPU, Memory, Disks, etc).
- gosms - Your own local SMS gateway in Go that can be used to send SMS
- gountries - A package that exposes country and subdivision data.
- hanu - Framework for writing Slack bots.
- health - A Easy to use, extensible health check library.
- indigo - A distributed unique ID generator of using Sonyflake and encoded by Base58.
- jobs - A persistent and flexible background jobs library.
- margelet - A framework for building Telegram bots.
- notify - File system event notification library with simple API, similar to os/signal.
- secdl - Lighttpd ModSecDownload algorithm ported to go to secure download urls.
- stats - Monitors Go MemStats + System stats such as Memory, Swap and CPU and sends via UDP anywhere you want for logging etc...
- werr - Error Wrapper creates an wrapper for the error type in Go which captures the File, Line and Stack of where it was called.
- xkg - X Keyboard Grabber
- xstrings - A collection of useful string functions ported from other languages.
Libraries for working with human languages.
- dpar - Transition-based statistical dependency parser.
- go-eco - Similarity, dissimilarity and distance matrices; diversity, equitability and inequality measures; species richness estimators; coenocline models.
- go-i18n - A package and an accompanying tool to work with localized text.
- go-mystem - CGo bindings to Yandex.Mystem - russian morphology analyzer.
- go-nlp - Utilities for working with discrete probability distributions and other tools useful for doing NLP work.
- go-stem - Implementation of the porter stemming algorithm.
- go-unidecode - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
- go2vec - Reader and utility functions for word2vec embeddings.
- gojieba - This is a Go implementation of jieba which a Chinese word splitting algorithm.
- golibstemmer - Go bindings for the snowball libstemmer library including porter 2
- gounidecode - Unicode transliterator (also known as unidecode) for Go
- icu - Cgo binding for icu4c C library detection and conversion functions. Guaranteed compatibility with version 50.1.
- libtextcat - Cgo binding for libtextcat C library. Guaranteed compatibility with version 2.2.
- MMSEGO - This is a GO implementation of MMSEG which a Chinese word splitting algorithm.
- paicehusk - Golang implementation of the Paice/Husk Stemming Algorithm
- porter - This is a fairly straightforward port of Martin Porter's C implementation of the Porter stemming algorithm.
- porter2 - Really fast Porter 2 stemmer.
- segment - A Go library for performing Unicode Text Segmentation as described in Unicode Standard Annex #29
- sentences - A sentence tokenizer: converts text into a list of sentences.
- snowball - Snowball stemmer port (cgo wrapper) for Go. Provides word stem extraction functionality Snowball native.
- stemmer - Stemmer packages for Go programming language. Includes English and German stemmers.
- textcat - A Go package for n-gram based text categorization, with support for utf-8 and raw text
Libraries for working with various layers of the network
- arp - Package arp implements the ARP protocol, as described in RFC 826.
- buffstreams - Streaming protocolbuffer data over TCP made easy
- canopus - CoAP Client/Server implementation (RFC 7252)
- dhcp6 - Package dhcp6 implements a DHCPv6 server, as described in RFC 3315.
- dns - Go library for working with DNS
- ether - A cross-platform Go package for sending and receiving ethernet frames.
- ethernet - Package ethernet implements marshaling and unmarshaling of IEEE 802.3 Ethernet II frames and IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tags.
- fasthttp - Package fasthttp is a fast HTTP implementation for Go, up to 10 times faster than net/http
- ftp - Package ftp implements a FTP client as described in RFC 959.
- go-getter - A Go library for downloading files or directories from various sources using a URL.
- go-stun - A go implementation of the STUN client (RFC 3489 and RFC 5389).
- gobgp - BGP implemented in the Go Programming Language.
- golibwireshark - Package golibwireshark use libwireshark library to decode pcap file and analyse dissection data.
- gopacket - A Go library for packet processing with libpcap bindings
- gopcap - A Go wrapper for libpcap
- goshark - Package goshark use tshark to decode IP packet and create data struct to analyse packet.
- gosnmp - Native Go library for performing SNMP actions
- gotcp - A Go package for quickly writing tcp applications
- grab - Go package for managing file downloads
- graval - An experimental FTP server framework.
- kcp-go - KCP - A Fast and Reliable ARQ Protocol.
- kcptun - An extremely simple & fast udp tunnel based on KCP protocol
- lhttp - A powerful websocket framework, build your IM server more easily.
- linkio - Network link speed simulation for Reader/Writer interfaces
- llb - It's a very simple but quick backend for proxy servers. Can be useful for fast redirection to predefined domain with zero memory allocation and fast response.
- mdns - Simple mDNS (Multicast DNS) client/server library in Golang
- mqttPaho - The Paho Go Client provides an MQTT client library for connection to MQTT brokers via TCP, TLS or WebSockets.
- portproxy - Simple TCP proxy which adds CORS support to API's which don't support it.
- raw - Package raw enables reading and writing data at the device driver level for a network interface.
- sftp - Package sftp implements the SSH File Transfer Protocol as described in https://filezilla-project.org/specs/draft-ietf-secsh-filexfer-02.txt.
- sslb - It's a Super Simples Load Balancer, just a little project to achieve some kind of performance.
- tcp_server - A Go library for building tcp servers faster.
- utp - Go uTP micro transport protocol implementation.
- winrm - A Go WinRM client to remotely execute commands on Windows machines
Libraries for using OpenGL in Go.
- gl - Go bindings for OpenGL (generated via glow).
- glfw - Go bindings for GLFW 3.
- goxjs/gl - Go cross-platform OpenGL bindings (OS X, Linux, Windows, browsers, iOS, Android).
- goxjs/glfw - Go cross-platform glfw library for creating an OpenGL context and receiving events.
- mathgl - Pure Go math package specialized for 3D math, with inspiration from GLM.
Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques.
- beego orm - A powerful orm framework for go. Support: pq/mysql/sqlite3.
- go-store - A simple and fast Redis backed key-value store library for Go.
- gomodel - A lightweight, fast, orm-like library helps interactive with database.
- GORM - The fantastic ORM library for Golang, aims to be developer friendly.
- gorp - Go Relational Persistence, ORM-ish library for Go.
- QBS - Stands for Query By Struct. A Go ORM.
- reform - A better ORM for Go, based on non-empty interfaces and code generation.
- SQLBoiler - An ORM generator. Generate a featureful and blazing-fast ORM tailored to your database schema.
- Storm - Simple and powerful ORM for BoltDB.
- upper.io/db - Single interface for interacting with different data sources through the use of adapters that wrap mature database drivers.
- Xorm - Simple and powerful ORM for Go.
- Zoom - A blazing-fast datastore and querying engine built on Redis.
Libraries for package and dependency management.
- gigo - PIP-like dependency tool for golang, with support for private repositories and hashes.
- glide - Manage your golang vendor and vendored packages with ease. Inspired by tools like Maven, Bundler, and Pip.
- godep - dependency tool for go, godep helps build packages reproducibly by fixing their dependencies.
- gom - Go Manager - bundle for go.
- goop - A simple dependency manager for Go (golang), inspired by Bundler.
- gopm - Go Package Manager
- govendor - Go Package Manager. Go vendor tool that works with the standard vendor file.
- gpm - Barebones dependency manager for Go.
- gvt -
gvt
is a simple vendoring tool made for Go native vendoring (aka GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT), based on gb-vendor. - johnny-deps - Minimal dependency version using Git
- nut - Vendor Go dependencies
- VenGO - create and manage exportable isolated go virtual environments
- graphql - graphql parser + utilities.
- graphql - GraphQL implementation in go.
- graphql-go - An implementation of GraphQL for Go.
- jsonql - JSON query expression library in Golang.
- esc - Embeds files into Go programs and provides http.FileSystem interfaces to them.
- fileb0x - Simple tool to embed files in go with focus on "customization" and ease to use.
- go-bindata - Package that converts any file into managable Go source code.
- go-embed - Generates go code to embed resource files into your library or executable
- go-resources - Unfancy resources embedding with Go.
- go.rice - go.rice is a Go package that makes working with resources such as html,js,css,images and templates very easy.
- statics - Embeds static resources into go files for single binary compilation + works with http.FileSystem + symlinks.
- vfsgen - Generates a vfsdata.go file that statically implements the given virtual filesystem.
Libraries for scientific computing and data analyzing.
- blas - Implementation of BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms)
- chart - Simple Chart Plotting library for Go. Supports many graphs types.
- evaler - A simple floating point arithmetic expression evaluator
- ewma - Exponentially-weighted moving averages
- geom - 2D geometry for golang
- go-dsp - Digital Signal Processing for Go
- go-fn - Mathematical functions written in Go language, that are not covered by math pkg
- go-gt - Graph theory algorithms written in "Go" language
- go.matrix - linear algebra for go (has been stalled)
- gocomplex - A complex number library for the Go programming language.
- gofrac - A (goinstallable) fractions library for go with support for basic arithmetic.
- gohistogram - Approximate histograms for data streams
- gonum/mat64 - The general purpose package for matrix computation. Package mat64 provides basic linear algebra operations for float64 matrices.
- gonum/plot - gonum/plot provides an API for building and drawing plots in Go.
- goraph - A pure Go graph theory library(data structure, algorith visualization)
- gostat - A statistics library for the go language
- mudlark-go - A collection of packages providing (hopefully) useful code for use in software using Google's Go programming language.
- pagerank - Weighted PageRank algorithm implemented in Go
- PiHex - Implementation of the "Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe" algorithm for the hexadecimal number Pi
- stats - A statistics package with common functions missing from the Golang standard library.
- streamtools - general purpose, graphical tool for dealing with streams of data.
- vectormath - Vectormath for Go, an adaptation of the scalar C functions from Sony's Vector Math library, as found in the Bullet-2.79 source code. (currently inactive)
Libraries that are used to help make your application more secure.
- acmetool — ACME (Let's Encrypt) client tool with automatic renewal.
- BadActor - An in-memory, application-driven jailer built in the spirit of fail2ban
- go-yara - Go Bindings for YARA, the "pattern matching swiss knife for malware researchers (and everyone else)"
- lego - Pure Go ACME client library and CLI tool (for use with Let's Encrypt)
- passlib - Futureproof password hashing library.
- simple-scrypt - an scrypt package with a simple, obvious API and automatic cost calibration built-in.
Libraries and tools for binary serialization
- asn1 - Asn.1 BER and DER encoding library for golang
- colfer - Code generation for the Colfer binary format
- go-capnproto - Cap'n Proto library and parser for go
- bambam - generator for Cap'n Proto schemas from go.
- go-codec - High Performance, feature-Rich, idiomatic encode, decode and rpc library for msgpack, cbor and json, with runtime-based OR code-generation support
- gogoprotobuf - Protocol Buffers for Go with Gadgets
- goprotobuf - Go support, in the form of a library and protocol compiler plugin, for Google's protocol buffers.
- mapstructure - Go library for decoding generic map values into native Go structures.
- php_session_decoder - GoLang library for working with PHP session format and PHP Serialize/Unserialize functions
- structomap - Library to easily and dynamically generate maps from static structures.
- algernon - HTTP/2 web server with built-in support for Lua, Markdown, GCSS and Amber.
- Caddy - Caddy is an alternative, HTTP/2 web server that's easy to configure and use.
- consul - Consul is a tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration.
- devd - A local webserver for developers
- etcd - A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery.
- minio - Minio is a distributed object storage server.
- nsq - A realtime distributed messaging platform
- yakvs - A small, networked, in-memory key-value store.
Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.
- ace - Ace is an HTML template engine for Go, inspired by Slim and Jade. Ace is a refinement of Gold.
- amber - Amber is an elegant templating engine for Go Programming Language It is inspired from HAML and Jade.
- damsel - Markup language featuring html outlining via css-selectors, extensible via pkg html/template and others.
- ego - A lightweight templating language that lets you write templates in Go. Templates are translated into Go and compiled.
- fasttemplate - Simple and fast template engine. Substitutes template placeholders up to 10x faster than text/template.
- gofpdf - A PDF document generator with high level support for text, drawing and images.
- kasia.go - Templating system for HTML and other text documents - go implementation.
- mustache - A Go implementation of the Mustache template language.
- pongo2 - A Django-like template-engine for Go.
- quicktemplate - Fast, powerful, yet easy to use template engine. Converts templates into Go code and then compiles it.
- raymond - A complete handlebars implementation in Go.
- Razor - Razor view engine for Golang.
- Soy - Closure templates (aka Soy templates) for Go, following the official spec
Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.
-
Testing Frameworks
- assert - Basic Assertion Library used along side native go testing, with building blocks for custom assertions
- badio - Extensions to Go's
testing/iotest
package - baloo - Expressive and versatile end-to-end HTTP API testing made easy.
- bro - Watch files in directory and run tests for them
- dsunit - Datastore testing for SQL, NoSQL, structured files.
- frisby - a REST API testing framework
- ginkgo - BDD Testing Framework for Go
- go-carpet - Tool for viewing test coverage in terminal
- go-mutesting - Mutation testing for Go source code
- go-vcr - Record and replay your HTTP interactions for fast, deterministic and accurate tests
- goblin - Mocha like testing framework fo Go
- gocheck - A more advanced testing framework alternative to gotest.
- GoConvey - BDD-style framework with web UI and live reload
- godog - Cucumber or Behat like BDD framework for Go.
- gofight - API Handler Testing for Golang Router framework.
- gomega - Rspec like matcher/assertion library.
- GoSpec - BDD-style testing framework for the Go programming language.
- gospecify - This provides a BDD syntax for testing your Go code. It should be familiar to anybody who has used libraries such as rspec.
- gosuite - Brings lightweight test suites with setup/teardown facilities to
testing
by leveraging Go1.7's Subtests - Hamcrest - fluent framework for declarative Matcher objects that, when applied to input values, produce self-describing results.
- httpexpect - Concise, declarative, and easy to use end-to-end HTTP and REST API testing
- restit - A Go micro framework to help writing RESTful API integration test.
- testfixtures - A helper for Rails' like test fixtures to test database applications.
- Testify - A sacred extension to the standard go testing package.
-
Mock
- counterfeiter - Tool for generating self-contained mock objects
- go-sqlmock - Mock SQL driver for testing database interactions
- go-txdb - Single transaction based database driver mainly for testing purposes.
- gock - Versatile HTTP mocking made easy.
- gomock - Mocking framework for the Go programming language.
- govcr - HTTP mock for Golang: record and replay HTTP interactions for offline testing
- mockhttp - Mock object for Go http.ResponseWriter
-
Fuzzing and delta-debugging/reducing/shrinking
- go-fuzz - A randomized testing system
- gofuzz - A library for populating go objects with random values
- gogenerate - A Scalacheck-like library for Go
- Tavor - A generic fuzzing and delta-debugging framework
Libraries for parsing and manipulating texts.
- Specific Formats
- allot - Placeholder and wildcard text parsing for CLI tools and bots
- bbConvert - Converts bbCode to HTML that allows you to add support for custom bbCode tags
- blackfriday - Markdown processor in Go
- github_flavored_markdown - GitHub Flavored Markdown renderer with fenced code block highlighting, clickable header anchor links.
- bluemonday - HTML Sanitizer
- editorconfig-core-go - Editorconfig file parser and manipulator for Go
- enca - Minimal cgo bindings for libenca.
- genex - Count and expand Regular Expressions into all matching Strings
- go-humanize - Formatters for time, numbers, and memory size to human readable format.
- go-nmea - NMEA parser library for the Go language.
- go-pkg-rss - This package reads RSS and Atom feeds and provides a caching mechanism that adheres to the feed specs.
- go-pkg-xmlx - Extension to the standard Go XML package. Maintains a node tree that allows forward/backwards browsing and exposes some simple single/multi-node search functions.
- go-runewidth - Functions to get fixed width of the character or string.
- go-slugify - Make pretty slug with multiple languages support.
- gofeed - Parse RSS and Atom feeds in Go
- gographviz - Parses the Graphviz DOT language.
- gommon/bytes - Format bytes to string.
- gonameparts - Parses human names into individual name parts
- GoQuery - GoQuery brings a syntax and a set of features similar to jQuery to the Go language.
- goregen - A library for generating random strings from regular expressions.
- gotext - GNU gettext utilities for Go.
- guesslanguage - Functions to determine the natural language of a unicode text.
- mxj - Encode / decode XML as JSON or map[string]interface{}; extract values with dot-notation paths and wildcards. Replaces x2j and j2x packages.
- sh - A shell parser and formatter
- slug - URL-friendly slugify with multiple languages support.
- Slugify - A Go slugify application that handles string.
- toml - TOML configuration format (encoder/decoder with reflection).
- Utility
- gotabulate - Easily pretty-print your tabular data with Go.
- kace - Common case conversions covering common initialisms.
- parseargs-go - A string argument parser that understands quotes and backslashes
- parth - URL path segmentation parsing.
- xurls - Extract urls from text
Libraries for accessing third party APIs.
- anaconda - A Go client library for the Twitter 1.1 API
- aws-sdk-go - The official AWS SDK for the Go programming language.
- brewerydb - Go library for accessing the BreweryDB API.
- cachet - Go client library for Cachet (open source status page system)
- circleci - A Go client library for interacting with CircleCI's API
- clarifai - A Go client library for interfacing with the Clarifai API.
- discordgo - Go bindings for the Discord Chat API
- facebook - Go Library that supports the Facebook Graph API
- gads - Google Adwords Unofficial API
- gami - Go library for Asterisk Manager Interface.
- gcm - Go library for Google Cloud Messaging
- geo-golang - Go Library to access Google Maps, MapQuest, Nominatim, OpenCage, HERE, Bing, Mapbox, and OpenStreetMap geocoding / reverse geocoding APIs.
- ghost - Go Library for accessing the Snapchat API.
- github - Go library for accessing the GitHub API.
- go-imgur - Go client library for imgur
- go-jira - Go client library for Atlassian JIRA
- go-marathon - A Go library for interacting with Mesosphere's Marathon PAAS.
- go-trending - Go library for accessing trending repositories and developers at Github.
- go-twitter - Go client library for the Twitter v1.1 APIs.
- go-xkcd - Go client for the xkcd API.
- goamz - Popular fork of goamz which adds some missing API calls to certain packages.
- GoMusicBrainz - a Go MusicBrainz WS2 client library.
- google - Auto-generated Google APIs for Go.
- google-analytics - A simple wrapper for easy google analytics reporting.
- google-cloud - Google Cloud APIs Go Client Library.
- google-email-audit-api - Go client library for Google G Suite Email Audit API.
- gostorm - GoStorm is a Go library that implements the communications protocol required to write Storm spouts and Bolts in Go that communicate with the Storm shells.
- hipchat - This project implements a golang client library for the Hipchat API.
- hipchat (xmpp) - A golang package to communicate with HipChat over XMPP.
- Medium - A Golang SDK for Medium's OAuth2 API.
- megos - A client library for accessing an Apache Mesos cluster
- minio-go - Minio Go Library for Amazon S3 compatible cloud storage.
- mixpanel - Mixpanel is a library for tracking events and sending Mixpanel profile updates to Mixpanel from your go applications.
- paypal - Wrapper for PayPal payment API
- playlyfe - The Playlyfe Rest API Go SDK
- pushover - Go wrapper for the Pushover API.
- rrdaclient - Go Library to access statdns.com API, which is in turn RRDA API. DNS Queries over HTTP.
- shopify - Go Library to make CRUD request to the Shopify API.
- slack - Slack API in Go.
- smite - Go package to wraps access to the Smite game API.
- spotify - Go Library to access Spotify WEB API.
- steam - Go Library to interact with Steam game servers.
- stripe - Go client for the Stripe API
- telebot - Telegram bot framework written in Go.
- telegram-bot-api - Simple and clean Telegram bot client.
- textbelt - Go client for the textbelt.com txt messaging API.
- TheMovieDb - A simple golang package to communicate with themoviedb.org
- translate - Go online translation package.
- tumblr - Go wrapper for the Tumblr v2 API.
- webhooks - Webhook receiver for GitHub and Bitbucket.
General utilities and tools to make your life easier.
- abutil - A collection of often-used Golang helpers.
- apm - A process manager for Golang applications with an HTTP API.
- boilr - A blazingly fast CLI tool for creating projects from boilerplate templates.
- command - Command pattern for Go with thread safe serial and parallel dispatcher
- coop - Cheat sheet for some of the common concurrent flows in Go.
- Death - Managing go application shutdown with signals.
- Deepcopier - Simple struct copying for Go.
- delve - Go debugger.
- dlog - Compile-time controlled logger to make your release smaller without removing debug calls.
- fastlz - Wrap over FastLz (free, open-source, portable real-time compression library) for GoLang.
- filetype - Small package to infer the file type checking the magic numbers signature.
- fzf - A command-line fuzzy finder written in Go
- generate - runs go generate recursively on a specified path or environment variable and can filter by regex.
- gentleman - Full-featured plugin-driven HTTP client library.
- go-cron - A simple Cron library for go that can execute closures or functions at varying intervals, from once a second to once a year on a specific date and time. Primarily for web applications and long running daemons.
- go-debug - Conditional debug logging for Golang libraries & applications.
- go-dry - DRY (don't repeat yourself) package for Go.
- go-rate - A timed rate limiter for Go.
- go-sitemap-generator - XML Sitemap generator written in Go.
- go-torch - Stochastic flame graph profiler for Go programs.
- go-trigger - Go-lang global event triggerer, Register Events with an id and trigger the event from anywhere from your project.
- go-underscore - A useful collection of helpfully functional Go collection utilities.
- goback - Go simple exponential backoff package.
- godaemon - Utility to write daemons.
- godotenv - A Go port of Ruby's dotenv library (Loads environment variables from
.env
.) - godropbox - Common libraries for writing Go services/applications from Dropbox.
- gohper - Various tools/modules help for development.
- gojq - JSON query in Golang.
- golarm - Fire alarms with system events.
- golog - Easy and lightweight CLI tool to time track your tasks.
- gopencils - Small and simple package to easily consume REST APIs.
- goplaceholder - a small golang lib to generate placeholder images.
- goreq - Minimal and simple request library for Go language.
- goreq - An enhanced simplified HTTP client based on gorequest.
- gorequest - Simplified HTTP client with rich features for Go.
- gotenv - Load environment variables from
.env
or anyio.Reader
in Go - grequests - An elegant and simple
net/http
wrapper that follows Python's requests library - htcat - Parallel and Pipelined HTTP GET Utility
- httpcontrol - Package httpcontrol allows for HTTP transport level control around timeouts and retries.
- hystrix-go - Implements Hystrix patterns of programmer-defined fallbacks aka circuit breaker.
- JobRunner - Smart and featureful cron job scheduler with job queuing and live monitoring built in.
- jsonf - Console tool for highlighted formatting and struct query fetching JSON.
- jsongo - Fluent API to make it easier to create Json objects.
- kazaam - API for arbitrary transformation of JSON documents.
- lrserver - LiveReload server for Go
- mc - Minio Client provides minimal tools to work with Amazon S3 compatible cloud storage and filesystems.
- mergo - A helper to merge structs and maps in Golang. Useful for configuration default values, avoiding messy if-statements.
- moldova - A utility for generating random data based on an input template.
- mp - A simple cli email parser. It currently takes stdin and outputs JSON.
- multitick - Multiplexor for aligned tickers.
- netbug - Easy remote profiling of your services.
- ngrok - Introspected tunnels to localhost.
- okrun - go run error steamroller.
- panicparse - Groups similar goroutines and colorizes stack dump.
- peco - Simplistic interactive filtering tool.
- pester - Go HTTP client calls with retries, backoff, and concurrency.
- pm - Process (i.e. goroutine) manager with an HTTP API.
- profile - Simple profiling support package for Go.
- realize - Go build system with file watchers and live reload. Run, build and watch file changes with custom paths.
- request - Go HTTP Requests for Humans™.
- rerate - Redis-based rate counter and rate limiter for Go.
- rerun - Recompiling and rerunning go apps when source changes.
- resty - Simple HTTP and REST client for Go inspired by Ruby rest-client.
- robustly - Runs functions resiliently, catching and restarting panics.
- scheduler - Cronjobs scheduling made easy.
- sling - Go HTTP requests builder for API clients.
- spinner - Go package to easily provide a terminal spinner with options.
- sqlx - provides a set of extensions on top of the excellent built-in database/sql package.
- toolbox - Slice, map, multimap, struct, function, data conversion utilities. Service router, macro evaluator, tokenizer.
- ugo - ugo is slice toolbox with concise syntax for Go.
- xferspdy - Xferspdy provides binary diff and patch library in golang
- xlsx - Library to simplify reading the XML format used by recent version of Microsoft Excel in Go programs.
Libraries for validation.
- govalidator - Validators and sanitizers for strings, numerics, slices and structs.
- ozzo-validation - Supports validation of various data types (structs, strings, maps, slices, etc.) with configurable and extensible validation rules specified in usual code constructs instead of struct tags.
- validator - Go Struct and Field validation, including Cross Field, Cross Struct, Map, Slice and Array diving.
Libraries for version control.
- gh - Scriptable server and net/http middleware for GitHub Webhooks.
- git2go - Go bindings for libgit2.
- go-vcs - manipulate and inspect VCS repositories in Go.
- hgo - Hgo is a collection of Go packages providing read-access to local Mercurial repositories.
Libraries for manipulating video.
- gmf - Go bindings for FFmpeg av* libraries.
- goav - Comphrensive Go bindings for FFmpeg.
- gst - Go bindings for GStreamer.
Full stack web frameworks.
- alien - A lightweight and fast http router from outer space
- Beego - beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for the Go programming language.
- Bone - Lightning Fast HTTP Multiplexer.
- Bxog - Simple and fast HTTP router for Go. It works with routes of varying difficulty, length and nesting. And he knows how to create a URL from the received parameters.
- chi - Small, fast and expressive HTTP router built on net/context.
- CleverGo - CleverGo is a simple, easy to use and high performance web framework for Go.
- Echo - A fast and unfancy micro web framework for Go.
- fasthttprouter - A high performance router forked from
httprouter
. The first router fit forfasthttp
. - Fireball - A more "natural" feeling web framework.
- Florest - High-performance workflow based REST API framework
- Gin - Gin is a web framework written in Go! It features a martini-like API with much better performance, up to 40 times faster. If you need performance and good productivity.
- Gizmo - Microservice toolkit used by the New York Times.
- Glue - Robust Go and Javascript Socket Library (Alternative to Socket.io).
- go-json-rest - A quick and easy way to setup a RESTful JSON API.
- go-kit - A Microservice toolkit with support for service discovery, load balancing, pluggable transports, request tracking, etc.
- go-relax - A framework of pluggable components to build RESTful API's.
- go-rest - A small and evil REST framework for Go.
- go-socket.io - socket.io library for golang, a realtime application framework.
- goa - Framework for developing microservices based on the design of Ruby's Praxis.
- Goat - A minimalistic REST API server in Go.
- gocraft/web - A mux and middleware package in Go.
- Goji - Goji is a minimalistic and flexible HTTP request multiplexer with support for
net/context
. - Golf - Golf is a fast, simple and lightweight micro-web framework for Go. It comes with powerful features and has no dependencies other than the Go Standard Library.
- golongpoll - HTTP longpoll server library that makes web pub-sub simple.
- Gondola - The web framework for writing faster sites, faster
- gongular - A fast Go web framework with input mapping/validation and (DI) Dependency Injection
- goose - Server Sent Events in Go
- Gorilla - Gorilla is a web toolkit for the Go programming language.
- httprouter - A high performance router. Use this and the standard http handlers to form a very high performance web framework.
- httptreemux - High-speed, flexible tree-based HTTP router for Go. Inspiration from httprouter.
- lars - Is a lightweight, fast and extensible zero allocation HTTP router for Go used to create customizable frameworks.
- Macaron - Macaron is a high productive and modular design web framework in Go.
- mango - Mango is a modular web-application framework for Go, inspired by Rack, and PEP333.
- medeina - Medeina is a HTTP routing tree based on HttpRouter, inspired by Roda and Cuba.
- mux - A powerful URL router and dispatcher for golang.
- neo - Neo is minimal and fast Go Web Framework with extremely simple API.
- ozzo-routing - A high-performance HTTP router and Web framework supporting routes with regular expressions. Comes with full support for quickly building a RESTful API application.
- pat - Sinatra style pattern muxer for Go’s net/http library, by the author of Sinatra.
- Resoursea - A REST framework for quickly writing resource based services.
- REST Layer - A framework to build REST/GraphQL API on top of databases with mostly configuration over code.
- Revel - A high-productivity web framework for the Go language.
- rex - Rex is a library for modular development built upon gorilla/mux, fully compatible with
net/http
. - sawsij - lightweight, open-source web framework for building high-performance, data-driven web applications.
- session - Go session management for web servers (including support for Google App Engine - GAE).
- Siesta - Composable framework to write middleware and handlers
- tango - Micro & pluggable web framework for Go.
- tigertonic - A Go framework for building JSON web services inspired by Dropwizard
- traffic - Sinatra inspired regexp/pattern mux and web framework for Go.
- utron - A lightweight MVC framework for Go(Golang).
- VarHandler - Generate boilerplate http input and ouput handling.
- vestigo - A performant, stand-alone, HTTP compliant URL Router for go web applications.
- Volatile - Minimalist middleware stack promoting flexibility, good practices and clean code.
- xmux - A high performance muxer based on
httprouter
withnet/context
support. - YARF - Fast micro-framework designed to build REST APIs and web services in a fast and simple way.
- Zerver - Zerver is an expressive, modular, feature completed RESTful framework.
- zeus - A very simple and fast HTTP router for Go.
- CORS - Easily add CORS capabilities to your API.
- formjson - Transparently handle JSON input as a standard form POST.
- Limiter - Dead simple rate limit middleware for Go.
- Tollbooth - Rate limit HTTP request handler.
- XFF - Handle
X-Forwarded-For
header and friends.
- alice - Painless middleware chaining for Go.
- catena - http.Handler wrapper catenation (same API as "chain").
- chain - Handler wrapper chaining with scoped data (net/context-based "middleware").
- go-wrap - Small middlewares package for net/http.
- gores - Go package that handles HTML, JSON, XML and etc. responses. Useful for RESTful APIs.
- httpware - Stackable middleware (using net/context) with easy chaining.
- interpose - Minimalist net/http middleware for golang.
- muxchain - Lightweight middleware for net/http.
- negroni - Idiomatic HTTP middleware for Golang.
- render - Go package for easily rendering JSON, XML, and HTML template responses.
- stats - A Go middleware that stores various information about your web application.
Go software and plugins.
- apicompat - Checks recent changes to a Go project for backwards incompatible changes.
- dupl - A tool for code clone detection.
- errcheck - Errcheck is a program for checking for unchecked errors in Go programs.
- gcvis - Visualise Go program GC trace data in real time.
- Go Metalinter - Metalinter is a tool to automatically apply all static analysis tool and report their output in normalized form.
- go-checkstyle checkstyle is a style check tool like java checkstyle. This tool inspired by java checkstyle, golint. The style refered to some points in Go Code Review Comments.
- go-outdated - Console application that displays outdated packages.
- goast-viewer - Web based Golang AST visualizer.
- GoCover.io - GoCover.io offers the code coverage of any golang package as a service.
- goimports - Tool to fix (add, remove) your Go imports automatically.
- GoLint - Golint is a linter for Go source code.
- Golint online - Lints online Go source files on GitHub, Bitbucket and Google Project Hosting using the golint package.
- goreturns - Adds zero-value return statements to match the func return types.
- gostatus - A command line tool, shows the status of repositories that contain Go packages.
- interfacer - A linter that suggests interface types.
- validate - Automatically validates struct fields with tags.
- go-lang-idea-plugin Go plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
- go-plus - Go (Golang) Package For Atom That Adds Autocomplete, Formatting, Syntax Checking, Linting and Vetting
- Goclipse - An Eclipse plugin for Go.
- gocode - An autocompletion daemon for the Go programming language.
- GoSublime - A Golang plugin collection for the text editor SublimeText 2 providing code completion and other IDE-like features.
- velour - An IRC client for the acme editor.
- vim-compiler-go - A Vim plugin to highlight syntax errors on save.
- vim-go - Go development plugin for Vim.
- Watch - Runs a command in an acme win on file changes.
- colorgo - A wrapper around
go
command for colorizedgo build
output. - gb - An easy to use project based build tool for the Go programming language.
- go-pkg-complete - Bash completion for go and wgo.
- go-swagger - Swagger 2.0 implementation for go. Swagger is a simple yet powerful representation of your RESTful API.
- rts - RTS: response to struct. Generates Go structs from server responses.
Software written in Go.
- aptly - aptly is a Debian repository management tool.
- awsenv - a small binary that loads Amazon (AWS) environment variables for a profile.
- Banshee - Anomalies detection system for periodic metrics.
- bosun - Time Series Alerting Framework.
- dogo - Monitoring changes in the source file and automatically compile and run (restart).
- Dropship - A tool for deploying code via cdn.
- EasySSH - Golang package for easy remote execution through SSH and SCP downloading.
- Go Metrics - Go port of Coda Hale's Metrics library: https://github.com/codahale/metrics.
- go-selfupdate - Enable your Go applications to self update.
- gobrew - gobrew lets you easily switch between multiple versions of go.
- godbg - Web-based gdb front-end application.
- Gogs - A Self Hosted Git Service in the Go Programming Language.
- gonative - Tool which creates a build of Go that can cross compile to all platforms while still using the Cgo-enabled versions of the stdlib packages.
- govvv - A “go build” wrapper to easily add version information into Go binaries
- gox - A dead simple, no frills Go cross compile tool.
- goxc - build tool for Go, with a focus on cross-compiling and packaging.
- grapes - lightweight tool designed to distribute commands over ssh with ease.
- GVM - GVM provides an interface to manage Go versions.
- Hey - Hey is a tiny program that sends some load to a web application.
- kala - Simplistic, modern, and performant job scheduler.
- kubernetes - Container Cluster Manager from Google.
- Mora - REST server for accessing MongoDB documents and meta data.
- ostent - collects and displays system metrics and optionally relays to Graphite and/or InfluxDB.
- Packer - Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
- Rodent - Rodent helps you manage Go versions, projects and track dependencies.
- s3gof3r - A small utility/library optimized for high speed transfer of large objects into and out of Amazon S3.
- Scaleway-cli - Manage BareMetal Servers from Command Line (as easily as with Docker).
- sg - Benchmarks a set of HTTP endpoints (like ab), with possibility to use the reponse code and data between each call for specific server stress based on its previous response.
- [Vegeta] (https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta) - HTTP load testing tool and library. It's over 9000!
- webhook - Tool which allows user to create HTTP endpoints (hooks) that execute commands on the server.
- Wide - A Web-based IDE for Teams using Golang.
- winrm-cli - A cli tool to remotely execute commands on Windows machines
- borg - A terminal based search engine for bash snippets
- boxed - Dropbox based blog engine
- Cherry - A tiny webchat server in Go.
- Circuit - Circuit is a programmable platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and/or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), for management, discovery, synchronization and orchestration of services and hosts comprising cloud applications.
- Comcast - Simulate bad network connections.
- confd - Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul.
- Docker - An open platform for distributed applications for developers and sysadmins.
- Documize - Modern wiki software that integrates data from SaaS tools.
- fleet - A Distributed init System.
- Go Package Store - An app that displays updates for the Go packages in your GOPATH.
- gocc - Gocc is a compiler kit for Go written in Go.
- GoDocTooltip - A chrome extension for Go Doc sites, which shows function description as tooltip at funciton list.
- Gor - Http traffic replication tool, for replaying traffic from production to stage/dev environments in real-time.
- hsync - A filesystem hierarchy synchronizer.
- hugo - A Fast and Modern Static Website Engine.
- ipe - An open source Pusher server implementation compatible with Pusher client libraries written in GO.
- Juju - Cloud-agnostic service deployment and orchestration - supports EC2, Azure, Openstack, MAAS and more.
- limetext Lime Text is a powerful and elegant text editor primarily developed in Go that aims to be a Free and open-source software successor to Sublime Text.
- LiteIDE LiteIDE is a simple, open source, cross-platform Go IDE.
- mockingjay Fake HTTP servers and consumer driven contracts from one configuration file. You can also make the server randomly misbehave to help do more realistic performance tests.
- myLG - Command Line Network Diagnostic tool written in Go.
- naclpipe - A simple NaCL EC25519 based crypto pipe tool written in Go.
- nes - A Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator written in Go.
- orange-cat - A Markdown previewer written in Go.
- peg - Peg, Parsing Expression Grammar, is an implementation of a Packrat parser generator.
- Postman - Command-line utility for batch-sending email.
- restic - De-duplicating backup program.
- rkt - An App Container runtime that integrates with init systems, is compatible with other container formats like Docker, and supports alternative execution engines like KVM.
- Seaweed File System - Fast, Simple and Scalable Distributed File System with O(1) disk seek.
- shell2http - Executing shell commands via http server (for prototyping or remote control).
- snap - A powerful telemetry framework.
- Stack Up - Stack Up, a super simple deployment tool - just Unix - think of it like 'make' for a network of servers.
- syncthing - An open, decentralized file synchronization tool and protocol.
- Tenyks - Service oriented IRC bot using Redis and JSON for messaging.
- toto - A simple proxy server written in Go language, can be used together with browser.
- toxiproxy - Proxy to simulate network and system conditions for automated tests.
- tsuru - An extensible and open source Platform as a Service software.
- websysd - Web based process manager (like Marathon or Upstart).
- wellington - Sass project management tool, extends the language with sprite functions (like Compass).
Where to discover new Go libraries.
- autobench - Framework to compare the performance between different Go versions.
- go-benchmarks - A few miscellaneous Go microbenchmarks. Compare some language features to alternative approaches.
- go-http-routing-benchmark - Go HTTP request router benchmark and comparison.
- go-type-assertion-benchmark - Naive performance test of two ways to do type assertion in Go.
- go-web-framework-benchmark - Go web framework benchmark.
- go_serialization_benchmarks - Benchmarks of Go serialization methods.
- gocostmodel - Benchmarks of common basic operations for the Go language.
- golang-micro-benchmarks - Tiny collection of Go micro benchmarks. The intent is to compare some language features to others.
- golang-sql-benchmark - A collection of benchmarks for popular Go database/SQL utilities.
- gospeed - Go micro-benchmarks for calculating the speed of language constructs.
- kvbench - Key/Value database benchmark.
- skynet - Skynet 1M threads microbenchmark.
- speedtest-resize - Compare various Image resize algorithms for the Go language.
- dotGo - Paris, France
- GoCon - Tokyo, Japan
- GolangUK - London, UK
- GopherChina - Shanghai, China
- GopherCon - Denver, USA
- GopherCon Brazil - Florianópolis, BR
- GopherCon Dubai - Dubai, UAE
- GopherCon India - Bengaluru, India
- GothamGo - New York City, USA
- A Go Developer's Notebook
- An Introduction to Programming in Go
- Build Web Application with Golang
- Building Web Apps With Go
- Go Bootcamp
- GoBooks - A curated list of Go books
- Learning Go
- Network Programming With Go
- The Go Programming Language
- Awesome Go @LibHunt - Your go-to Go Toolbox.
- Awesome Remote Job - A curated list of awesome remote jobs. A lot of them is looking for Go hackers.
- awesome-awesomeness - List of other amazingly awesome lists.
- Flipboard - Go Magazine - A collection of Go articles and tutorials.
- Go Blog - The official Go blog.
- Go Challenge - Learn Go by solving problems and getting feedback from Go experts.
- Go Forum - Forum to discuss Go.
- Go In 5 Minutes - 5 minute screencasts focused on getting one thing done.
- Go Projects - List of projects on the Go community wiki.
- gocryforhelp - A collection of Go projects that needs help. Good place to start your open-source way in Go.
- godoc.org - Documentation for open source Go packages.
- golang-graphics - A collection of Go images, graphics, and art.
- golang-nuts - Go mailing list.
- Google Plus Community - The Google+ community for #golang enthusiasts.
- gowalker.org - Go Project API documentation.
- r/Golang - News about Go.
- Trending Go repositories on GitHub today - Good place to find new Go libraries.
- A Tour of Go - Interactive tour of Go.
- Building Go Web Applications and Microservices Using Gin - Get familiar with Gin and find out how it can help you reduce boilerplate code and build a request handling pipeline.
- Go By Example - A hands-on introduction to Go using annotated example programs.
- Go database/sql tutorial - Introduction to database/sql.
- How to Use Godog for Behavior-driven Development in Go - Get started with Godog — a Behavior-driven development framework for building and testing Go applications.
- Working with Go - An intro to go for experienced programmers.