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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
requests
Posts with mentions or reviews of requests.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-13.
- I wrote my own Go HTTP client
- requests v0.23.4 with XML support
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How use gorilla/http for requests
Here is a good HTTP client library that is still under maintenance: https://github.com/carlmjohnson/requests
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The Go libraries that never failed us: 22 libraries you need to know
https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2021/requests-golang-http-client/ talks about why that’s the API. To be honest, I think a lot of people have an irrational fear of mutability. If you want to make a clone, use .Clone(). If not then don’t. But if you don’t like mutability, you’re going to dislike using the Go standard library, which uses mutable package variables all over the place.
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Too many returns?
Yeah, tons of boilerplate. See https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2021/requests-golang-http-client/
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How I write offline API tests in Go
Yeah, I made a simple response recorder inspired by VCR. VCR is a little more complex than I need but the basic approach is great.
- Libraries you use most of your projects?
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json response data from curl tool is different than http.Get method.
The native Go HTTP library is very capable, but it is extremely verbose. At the risk of introducing more complexity, I suggest using https://github.com/carlmjohnson/requests just so you don’t have to deal with checking all the errors and making the status code is correct.
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How GoLang Generics Empower Concise API: HTML Table Extraction Case Study
What the other commenter said but also read this: https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2021/requests-golang-http-client/ It talks about the need for clients and contexts throughout.
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go-vcr v3 has been released
VCR is a great project, and because it uses the standard Go http.RoundTripper interface, you can use it with other projects!
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.
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Upload and Delete file from Amazon S3 Bucket in Go using Presigned URLs
Once environment variables are setup we need load them into our project. For this this i will use viper
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Proxy Server in Go
The code uses Viper to load configuration files in the application.
- API completa em Golang - Parte 2
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What 3rd-party libraries do you use often/all the time?
github.com/spf13/viper
- API completa em Golang - Parte 1
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Building RESTful API with Hexagonal Architecture in Go
Instead of directly accessing environment variables with os.Getenv(), integrating a configuration handler like viper might make it maintainable.
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What is the most common approach to configure a backend app?
I guess most people are using https://github.com/spf13/viper but I don't know if I should read everything from
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Could I get a code review?
Use Viper for config file or environmental variable configuration -- it's going to save you a whole lot of time.
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Which packages do you recommend for building cli tools?
Cobra and Viper.
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Library for Python similar to Go's Viper / 12 Factor
I've mostly been using https://github.com/spf13/viper of late for my go projects. It supports the standard config formats, (json, yaml, toml etc) and lets you override any value with a ENV value.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing requests and viper you can also consider the following projects:
httpx - Reliable HTTP for GoLang
godotenv - A Go port of Ruby's dotenv library (Loads environment variables from .env files)
go-http-client - An enhanced and lightweight http client for Golang
envconfig - Small library to read your configuration from environment variables
req - Simple Go HTTP client with Black Magic
koanf - Simple, extremely lightweight, extensible, configuration management library for Go. Support for JSON, TOML, YAML, env, command line, file, S3 etc. Alternative to viper.
heimdall - An enhanced HTTP client for Go
cleanenv - ✨Clean and minimalistic environment configuration reader for Golang
httpretry - Enriches the standard go http client with retry functionality.
kelseyhightower/envconfig - Golang library for managing configuration data from environment variables
packet - :package: Send network packets over a TCP or UDP connection.
mapstructure - Go library for decoding generic map values into native Go structures and vice versa.