goda vs gow

goda

Go Dependency Analysis toolkit (by loov)

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gow

Missing watch mode for Go commands. Watch Go files and execute a command like "go run" or "go test" (by mitranim)

Golang Go Watch Build Tool task-runner

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goda		gow
	Project
3	Mentions	5
1,273	Stars	686
2.0%	Growth	-
3.5	Activity	6.0
8 months ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
Go	Language	Go
MIT License	License	The Unlicense

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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.

goda

Posts with mentions or reviews of goda. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-23.

How to start a Go project in 2023
21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 May 2023

which prints a sorted ASCII table with stats like 'size:4.4MB loc:134171' for each package, which is an estimate the savings you'd get if you eliminated that package from your binary.
Things that are unexpectedly large tend to jump to the top.
The examples in the README are the best way to get started after 'go install github.com/loov/goda@latest'.
[0] https://github.com/loov/goda
Is there a tool like ndepend for Go?
1 project | /r/golang | 27 Sep 2022

Not quite ndepend, but this might help: https://github.com/loov/goda
visualize dependency inside application
2 projects | /r/golang | 29 Mar 2021

gow

Posts with mentions or reviews of gow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-23.

How to start a Go project in 2023
21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 May 2023

The article mentions GOW[0] for a file watcher. If anyone is looking for a non-go specific one, I've really enjoyed reflex[1]. Makes it super easy to reload different parts of a project based on what type of file has changed.
[0]https://github.com/mitranim/gow
wgo: a live reload tool for Go
4 projects | /r/golang | 29 Jan 2023

I use gow. How does it compare with it?
Golang's "go install" - what about other developers? Automation of dependency download
1 project | /r/golang | 7 May 2022

I try to build my first project. Currently I focus on tests (TDD) so I looked for some library/package to watch tests. I found: gow: https://github.com/mitranim/gow.
mitranim/gow: watch mode for Go commands
1 project | /r/golang | 18 Apr 2021
I use the gin (not the framework) reload tool a lot, but I notice it's failing on github
4 projects | /r/golang | 5 Feb 2021

I use this one https://github.com/mitranim/gow

What are some alternatives?

When comparing goda and gow you can also consider the following projects:

go-formatter - A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software

air - ☁️ Live reload for Go apps

go-callvis - Visualize call graph of a Go program using Graphviz

gon - Sign, notarize, and package macOS CLI tools and applications written in any language. Available as both a CLI and a Go library.

spicedb - Open Source, Google Zanzibar-inspired permissions database to enable fine-grained access control for customer applications

modd - A flexible developer tool that runs processes and responds to filesystem changes

go - The Go programming language

wgo - Live reload for Go apps. Watch arbitrary files and respond with arbitrary commands. Supports running multiple invocations in parallel.

goleak - Goroutine leak detector

taskctl - Concurrent task runner, developer's routine tasks automation toolkit. Simple modern alternative to GNU Make 🧰

Reloader - A Kubernetes controller to watch changes in ConfigMap and Secrets and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet and DeploymentConfig – [✩Star] if you're using it!

postgrest-go - Isomorphic Go client for PostgREST. (Now Updating)