godotenv VS pgx

Compare godotenv vs pgx and see what are their differences.

godotenv

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

pgx

PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go (by jackc)
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godotenv

Posts with mentions or reviews of godotenv. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-05.
  • Autenticação com Golang e AWS Cognito
    4 projects | dev.to | 5 Feb 2024
    Primeiro vamos carregar nossas envs com o pacote godotenv, depois iniciamos nosso cognito client, passando o COGNITO_CLIENT_ID, que pegamos anteriormente, depois iniciamos o gin e criamos um server, isso é o suficiente.
  • Tools besides Go for a newbie
    36 projects | /r/golang | 26 Mar 2023
    IDE: use whatever make you productive. I personally use vscode. VCS: git, as golang communities use github heavily as base for many libraries. AFAIK Linter: use staticcheck for linting as it looks like mostly used linting tool in go, supported by many also. In Vscode it will be recommended once you install go plugin. Libraries/Framework: actually the standard libraries already included many things you need, decent enough for your day-to-day development cycles(e.g. `net/http`). But here are things for extra: - Struct fields validator: validator - Http server lib: chi router , httprouter , fasthttp (for non standard http implementations, but fast) - Web Framework: echo , gin , fiber , beego , etc - Http client lib: most already covered by stdlib(net/http), so you rarely need extra lib for this, but if you really need some are: resty - CLI: cobra - Config: godotenv , viper - DB Drivers: sqlx , postgre , sqlite , mysql - nosql: redis , mongodb , elasticsearch - ORM: gorm , entgo , sqlc(codegen) - JS Transpiler: gopherjs - GUI: fyne - grpc: grpc - logging: zerolog - test: testify , gomock , dockertest - and many others you can find here
  • Reading Environment Variable from a .env file on a Server
    1 project | /r/golang | 21 Jan 2023
    In his code it is done using https://github.com/joho/godotenv
  • Libraries you use most of your projects?
    30 projects | /r/golang | 2 Nov 2022
  • Restful API with Golang practical approach
    9 projects | dev.to | 17 Oct 2022
    envconfig: Library for managing configuration data from environment variables (https://github.com/joho/godotenv)
  • Is this clear why its useful?
    3 projects | /r/golang | 11 Oct 2022
    There is already a more complete, safer and neatly written godotenv alternative. It may be taken as an educational inspiration for next attempts.
  • I need some help setting up variables for the sake of my sanity
    1 project | /r/golang | 4 May 2022
    Chances are you are going to set them in you real server, and most likely you will going to use Linux for that. So for local development create a .env file with those in there. And at the start of you program, load them. You can use https://github.com/joho/godotenv Don’t share that file of course, and don’t put it in git.
  • How can I "source" a bash script?
    2 projects | /r/golang | 25 Feb 2022
    Maybe https://github.com/joho/godotenv can help
  • passwords, secrets, keys - best practice
    5 projects | /r/golang | 23 Feb 2022
    joho/godotenv
  • I'm looking for a good alternativ to Viper
    12 projects | /r/golang | 16 Jan 2022

pgx

Posts with mentions or reviews of pgx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-22.
  • Setting up a Database Driver, Repository and Implementation of a transaction function for your Go App
    2 projects | dev.to | 22 Apr 2024
    Sometimes, backend developers tend to opt for an ORM library because it provides an abstraction between your app and the database and thus there is little or no need to write raw queries and migrations which is nice. However, if you want to get better at writing queries (SQL for example), you need to learn how to build your repositories without an ORM. To open a database handle, you can either do it directly from the database driver or do it from database/sql with the driver passed into it. I will be opening the connection with database/sql together with pgx which is a driver and toolkit for PostgreSQL. Walk with me.
  • The DDD Hamburger for Go
    2 projects | dev.to | 6 Jan 2024
    The infrastructure layer contains the concrete implementation of the repository domain interface ActivityRepository in the struct DbActivityRepository. This repository implementation uses the Postgres driver pgx and plain SQL to store the activity in the database. It uses the database transaction from the context, since the transaction was initiated by the application service.
  • Building RESTful API with Hexagonal Architecture in Go
    21 projects | dev.to | 27 Sep 2023
    For building the RESTful Point of Sale service API, I've considered and selected a combination of technologies that would work seamlessly together. For handling HTTP requests and responses, using the Gin HTTP web framework would make sense because I think it seems complete and popular among Go community too. To ensure data integrity and persistence, I'm using PostgreSQL database with pgx as the database driver, the reason I choose PostgreSQL because it is the most popular relational database to use in production and offers efficient Go integration. I'm also implementing caching using Redis with go-redis client library, which provides powerful in-memory data storage capabilities.
  • Working with postgres in GO.
    2 projects | /r/golang | 3 Jul 2023
    If you are willing to commit to working only with Postgres, I highly recommend pgx. Be sure you get the latest version github.com/jackc/pgx/v5. This gives you the full power of interacting with Postgres without going through an intermediate lowest-common-denominator library.
  • How to Use Iris and PostgreSQL for Web Development
    6 projects | dev.to | 2 Jul 2023
    It uses pg package and pgx driver under the hood.
  • Could I get a code review?
    11 projects | /r/golang | 1 Jun 2023
    Starting off, is there any reason you're calling out to the CLI, instead of just using a Postgres driver like pgx? Shelling out to the command line should always be a last resort where possible as a software engineer.
  • Why elixir over Golang
    10 projects | /r/elixir | 29 May 2023
    For maintaining state I use PostgreSQL. Driver: https://github.com/jackc/pgx (I use the pgxpools) Along with Sqlc for generating database models and allowing me to focus on just building queries in DBeaver. https://sqlc.dev/
  • Make psql display settings on login
    1 project | /r/PostgreSQL | 24 May 2023
    An example of what I'm looking for can be found here https://github.com/jackc/pgx/wiki/Getting-started-with-pgx-through-database-sql/c9f798b4d9a500fcf93931df2464af969d68f516
  • Zig now has built-in HTTP server and client in std
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 May 2023
    Except pgx recommends using their native interface, not database/sql, for performance and extra features [0], so it's not that simple in practice.

    [0]: https://github.com/jackc/pgx#choosing-between-the-pgx-and-da...

  • Go Roadmap
    2 projects | /r/golang | 5 May 2023
    pgx is “PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go”. Take a look at https://github.com/jackc/pgx

What are some alternatives?

When comparing godotenv and pgx you can also consider the following projects:

viper - Go configuration with fangs

sqlx - general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql

gotenv - Load environment variables from `.env` or `io.Reader` in Go.

GORM - The fantastic ORM library for Golang, aims to be developer friendly

structs - Golang struct operations.

pq - Pure Go Postgres driver for database/sql

xferspdy - Xferspdy provides binary diff and patch library in golang. [Mentioned in Awesome Go, https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go]

gomock - GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language.

delve - Delve is a debugger for the Go programming language.

go-sql-driver/mysql - Go MySQL Driver is a MySQL driver for Go's (golang) database/sql package

fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

sqlc - Generate type-safe code from SQL