GoSwagger VS goa

Compare GoSwagger vs goa and see what are their differences.

goa

🌟 Goa: Elevate Go API development! 🚀 Streamlined design, automatic code generation, and seamless HTTP/gRPC support. ✨ (by goadesign)
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GoSwagger goa
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9,225 5,438
1.2% 0.9%
8.8 9.3
9 days ago 10 days ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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GoSwagger

Posts with mentions or reviews of GoSwagger. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-31.
  • OpenAPI v4 Proposal
    24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 May 2023
    Much or some OpenAPI tooling has not even moved past OpenAPI 2.0 some even refusing and saying that they will not update to Swagger 3.0 [0] and others have issues open since some 2019 and still open with no resolution in sight (because these are individuals doing out of passion and the spec is complex to implement) and yet we have Open API spec 4.0

    All this is - trying to do RPC over HTTP in a fashion that was deemed virtuous in some doctoral thesis.

    I wish there were better alternatives for RPC that work everywhere including browsers.

    [0]https://github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger/issues/1122#issueco...

  • [Request] Library Recommendation for Auto Swagger/OpenAPIv3 Documentation
    4 projects | /r/golang | 27 May 2023
    I recommend this: https://github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger
  • A there any production-ready code generators?
    2 projects | /r/golang | 29 Mar 2023
    Hi there. I am seeking any open source Schema Driven Development tool like go-swagger, but i really need to use there:
  • Is there a way to generate controller from swagger through build tools?
    2 projects | /r/golang | 24 Feb 2023
  • FastAPI Replacement - especially with openapi
    9 projects | /r/golang | 19 Jan 2023
    Try this https://github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger. It generates code for you. It is useful if only for you to generate the models/structs you could use.
  • OpenAPI Specification: The Complete Guide
    19 projects | dev.to | 18 May 2022
    go-swagger brings to the go community a complete suite of fully-featured, high-performance, API components to work with a Swagger API: - Github - Swagger 2.0 implementation for go
  • Easiest way to make a documentation?
    2 projects | /r/golang | 12 May 2022
    There is also a Code Generator that reads in a swagger file (2.0 only) and generates code for you, so all you have to do is create functions.
    2 projects | /r/golang | 12 May 2022
    This is the fastest way; it isn't necessarily the best for an API, because godoc is designed to document Go code, not HTTP APIs. You can use something like go-swagger to try to generate swagger/OpenAPI documentation. However, I find it a useful package, but a frustrating one to use. It likes to silently fail and just stop generating documentation and imposes a couple of restrictions the underlying spec doesn't. I find I have to make one change at a time and run their generator after each one, because at any moment, I may make a small typo, or confuse it some other way, and lose entire chunks of my documentation silently. But when it is working, it is an option for documenting APIs.
  • Show me your REST APIs 😊
    12 projects | /r/golang | 15 Dec 2021
    You have things like https://github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger. Where the generated code is not 100% vanilla, not ideal.
  • Looking for help with Azure Autorest
    2 projects | /r/golang | 4 Oct 2021
    You may have better luck with go-swagger or OpenAPI Generator to generate Go code.

goa

Posts with mentions or reviews of goa. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.
  • Microservices communication
    3 projects | /r/golang | 9 Dec 2023
    See https://goa.design/. It automates all the comms stuff, so you just write: 1) a design file showing your functions, 2) an implantation of those functions, and 3) a very generic "main.go" (basically the same for all your services) that decides "how is this exposed over gRPC or REST or other comms?". The rest of the code is generated.
  • Create Production-Ready SDKs with Goa
    9 projects | dev.to | 22 Nov 2023
    Perhaps the easiest way to find out how to do something (especially when using Meta) is to search the test cases when you have cloned the source code.
  • Which is the best framework to create web apps with go?
    6 projects | /r/golang | 29 Jun 2023
    If you really need a framework, you can take a look at Echo or, for a contract-first approach, https://goa.design/
  • OpenAPI v4 Proposal
    24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 May 2023
    Few folks in here are (rightly) frustrated with the code generation story and broader tooling support around the OpenAPI standard. I've found a few alternative approaches quite nice to work with:

    - Use a DSL to describe your service and have it spit out the OpenAPI spec as well as server stubs. In other words, I wouldn't bother writing OpenAPI directly - it's an artifact that is generated at build time. As a Go user, I quite like Goa (https://goa.design/) but there are others shared in here like TypeSpec.

    - There are situations where sticking a backend-for-frontend (BFF) in front of APIs can yield great productivity boosts. For example, in the past we built a thin GraphQL proxy that calls out to a poorly structured REST API. Integrating with that was much more convenient. Most recently, I've been playing with a BFF built with tRPC (https://trpc.io/) which calls out to a REST API. It seemed to provide an even better experience if you use TypeScript on the front-end and in the BFF. It does not have a codegen step and I was really pleased with how fast I could iterate with it - granted it was a toy project.

  • Beginner-friendly API made with Go following hexagonal architecture.
    5 projects | /r/golang | 21 May 2023
    One of the biggest issues I see is that you are using the same models for API as you are for the database. That wouldn’t fly in a real work system. And even though your doing simple CRUD I would introduce another layer for business logic. You should never have the Controller calling you database code directly. It never “stays” that simplistic. One of the easiest ways to deal with this is to use Goa. https://goa.design/ It takes care of generating your API models and it creates the Interfaces to implement for your business logic. Furthermore it creates OpenAPI documentation (something missing in this design that is a must for commercial development).
  • Go with PHP
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 May 2023
    I left PHP for Go.

    - with http://sqlc.dev I don't have to write ORM or model code anymore.

    - with http://goa.design I can have well-documented API's that any team can generate a client for in any language. It also generates the HTTP JSON and gRPC servers for me so I can focus on my logic.

    - with https://github.com/99designs/gqlgen I can define GraphQL revolvers that play well with sqlc (any RDBMS) or I can use a key-value store.

    - speaking of key-value stores, Go allows them to be embedded! Even SQLite now has the https://litestream.io/ project to make it super simple to use a durable, always backed-up SQLite database even in a serverless context.

    Go is faster, uses less memory, and has really-well designed stdlib without all the bugs I used to face trying to use the PHP stdlib.

  • Do you really need microservices?
    2 projects | /r/Python | 9 May 2023
    Goa and Kong are some of the best frameworks to develop and deploy microservices. They provide features such as out-of-the-box support for service discovery, routing and authentication that make it easier to build more complex applications. There are also newer architectural frameworks with less steep learning curves like GPTDeploy that lets you build and deploy microservices with a single command.
  • Dumb question about APIs, Mux and Go
    3 projects | /r/learngolang | 27 Apr 2023
    Or the one we use at work: https://goa.design/ Goa does a lot more and maybe more than you need. We use it as it can generate both REST and gRPC as well as API models and OpenAPI documentation (JSON and YAML).
  • Why is gin so popular?
    6 projects | /r/golang | 18 Apr 2023
  • Does this project structure make sense?
    6 projects | /r/golang | 5 Apr 2023
    I typically use Goa for my controller. It makes the API Controller, API models, and OpenAPI Documentation. Making the OpenAPI documentation can be a pain, so this really helps. https://goa.design/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GoSwagger and goa you can also consider the following projects:

swag - Automatically generate RESTful API documentation with Swagger 2.0 for Go.

Gin - Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin.

go-kit - A standard library for microservices.

kin-openapi - OpenAPI 3.0 (and Swagger v2) implementation for Go (parsing, converting, validation, and more)

oapi-codegen - Generate Go client and server boilerplate from OpenAPI 3 specifications

openapi-generator - OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3)

Echo - High performance, minimalist Go web framework

gqlgen - go generate based graphql server library