gopherjs VS pgx

Compare gopherjs vs pgx and see what are their differences.

gopherjs

A compiler from Go to JavaScript for running Go code in a browser (by gopherjs)

pgx

PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go (by jackc)
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gopherjs pgx
17 70
12,350 9,234
0.6% -
8.2 9.2
2 days ago 8 days ago
Go Go
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License MIT License
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gopherjs

Posts with mentions or reviews of gopherjs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-26.
  • 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
  • GopherJS now supports Go 1.18! 🥳
    2 projects | /r/golang | 25 Aug 2022
    Release notes have all the details. For now it is just compatibility with the 1.18 standard library, but generics support is planned.
    2 projects | /r/golang | 25 Aug 2022
  • Is there a game engine in Go that can make an RTS game?
    4 projects | /r/golang | 20 May 2022
    Why not use https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs with jMonkeyEngine as-is?
  • my experience with blazor
    2 projects | dev.to | 18 Apr 2022
    When I wrote my first project in this year, I don't even planed to used blazor. But my childlike curiosity directed me on that path. I wanted to know, haw hard will be port game from desktop to web browser in .net. And I found out is not that hard. But I have experience with similar tools before. I used gopherjs and emscripten. Thanks to that I know what must to do, to communicate c# with javasrcipt. I made working blazor port pretty fast. Not only server side but webassembly to. Of curs create port for different platform always generate some problems. Most weird problem I have in blazor is how floating point number behave. I received in some cases NaN values. This problem I resolve adding value like 0.0001 in calculation.
  • Replace JS with Rust on front-end, possible? Advisable?
    7 projects | /r/rust | 17 Apr 2022
    If you're already building the backend in go and you don't like the prospect of coding in JavaScript it might be worth trying out https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs
  • Is it wise to build ecommerce website with golang?
    2 projects | /r/golang | 7 Jan 2022
    You can also write JS in Go with GopherJS, but if you don't fully understand the underlying JS webdev ecosystem, adding this extra layer of complexity is probably a really bad idea, at least at first.
  • Go Replaces Interface{} with 'Any'
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Dec 2021
    Ok, so if Go compiled to JS it would be a dynamic language?

    https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs

  • Go for web frontend
    9 projects | /r/golang | 19 Oct 2021
    You probably came across gopherjs in your research. I'm curious what you thought of it.
  • What are your favorite packages to use?
    55 projects | /r/golang | 15 Aug 2021
    gopherjs has been great with a personal experiment to implement a virtual dom framework within Go.

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 2024-01-06.
  • 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/
  • 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
  • sql.DB connection TTLs + aws rds postgresql
    2 projects | /r/golang | 4 May 2023
    the postgres pgx driver supports this usecase: https://github.com/jackc/pgx/issues/676
  • 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

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

pq - Pure Go Postgres driver for database/sql

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

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

sqlc - Generate type-safe code from SQL

migrate - Database migrations. CLI and Golang library.

goqu - SQL builder and query library for golang

bun - Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one

go-sqlite3 - sqlite3 driver for go using database/sql

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.

retry-go - Simple golang library for retry mechanism