config VS viper

Compare config vs viper and see what are their differences.

viper

Go configuration with fangs (by spf13)
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config viper
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0.0 8.8
over 2 years ago 3 days ago
Go Go
MIT License MIT License
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config

Posts with mentions or reviews of config. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-09.

viper

Posts with mentions or reviews of viper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing config and viper you can also consider the following projects:

go-flagsfiller - Bring your own struct and make Go's flag package pleasant to use

godotenv - A Go port of Ruby's dotenv library (Loads environment variables from .env files)

env - 🔍 Load environment variables into a config struct

envconfig - Small library to read your configuration from environment variables

saido - YAML based tool for monitoring metrics across multiple hosts

koanf - Simple, extremely lightweight, extensible, configuration management library for Go. Support for JSON, TOML, YAML, env, command line, file, S3 etc. Alternative to viper.

vars - Simple and yet powerful configuration management for Go

cleanenv - ✨Clean and minimalistic environment configuration reader for Golang

kelseyhightower/envconfig - Golang library for managing configuration data from environment variables

mapstructure - Go library for decoding generic map values into native Go structures and vice versa.

ini - Package ini provides INI file read and write functionality in Go

goConfig - goconfig uses a struct as input and populates the fields of this struct with parameters from command line, environment variables and configuration file.