jennifer
Jennifer is a code generator for Go (by dave)
gen
Type-driven code generation for Go (by clipperhouse)
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| jennifer | gen | |
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| 6 | 0 | |
| 3,168 | 1,432 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.7 | 2.9 | |
| 8 months ago | 6 months ago | |
| Go | Go | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
jennifer
Posts with mentions or reviews of jennifer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-11.
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How to minimize RAM usage during Go binary compilation
We have a repo/library called fasten-sources which is made up of mostly generated code (using dave/jennifer)
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Golang’s best-kept secret: ‘executable examples’
Check out my https://github.com/dave/rebecca package for a neat way of building readme docs by embedding Go docs and examples. It generates the readme for https://github.com/dave/jennifer (see https://github.com/dave/jennifer/blob/master/README.md.tpl).
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Designing a config API for microservices applications built using Go
The design of the wrapper functions meant we couldn’t easily unmarshal the CUE value into the wrapper functions. This meant we needed to generate unmarshalled functions for the config types. We use the excellent Jennifer library by Dave (no really; github.com/dave/jennifer) for generating Go files.
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How to choose a golang template rending engine for my project?
If specifically for generating Go code, I would suggest you take a look at Jennifer.
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Boilerplate for experienced devs
I just spent a few hours writing a crapload of boilerplate code generation code with jennifer, if that helps any.
gen
Posts with mentions or reviews of gen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning gen yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing jennifer and gen you can also consider the following projects:
go-linq - .NET LINQ capabilities in Go
Anakin - Codegeneration tool for isomorphic server and mobile Go apps with gRPC & Protobuf. Share code between your backend, Android & iOS app! :sun_with_face:
efaceconv
interfaces - Code generation tools for Go.
goverter - Generate type-safe Go converters by simply defining an interface
pkgreflect - A Go preprocessor for package scoped reflection
golang-standards/project-layout - Standard Go Project Layout