pgx VS gomock

Compare pgx vs gomock and see what are their differences.

pgx

PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go (by jackc)

gomock

GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language. (by golang)
Our great sponsors
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
pgx gomock
70 40
9,234 9,010
- -
9.2 2.5
8 days ago 9 months ago
Go Go
MIT License Apache License 2.0
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

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

gomock

Posts with mentions or reviews of gomock. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-28.
  • Google Stopped Maintaining GoMock
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jun 2023
    The commit mentions this rather sad thread: https://github.com/golang/mock/pull/627#issuecomment-1605169...
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jun 2023
  • 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
  • When to mock and what to mock in a Web API?
    3 projects | /r/golang | 23 Mar 2023
    Normally I like to generate everything with Mockgen and test it using table driven test.
  • Is gomock still maintained and recommended?
    7 projects | /r/golang | 6 Mar 2023
    Looking at gomock's commit history, it seems like there hasn't been much activity on the project in a couple of years. I'm wondering if this is the case of software being mostly done and just in maintenance mode, or if gomock is falling behind. The reason I fear for the latter is there are still issues being opened up that don't seem to be engaged very much.
  • Want to know if this is a valid approach
    2 projects | /r/golang | 2 Mar 2023
    Yeah, that would work just fine. Nevertheless, as your business logic gets more complicated, you will want to test more scenarios and mocks will get complicated fast. In these cases tools like gomock really shine and make your life easier. I understand that this is a just-for-fun project, but it's never too early to experiment with a popular solution, especially if you plan on using Go professionally in the future.
  • Go API Project Set-Up
    7 projects | dev.to | 23 Dec 2022
    Unit tests are leveraged to test individual units of code. As such it is not recommended for a developer to scaffold entire dependencies for the sake of testing a single object. Due to the way Go's specific implementations work, I've learned over time to declare interfaces for a lot of the structs that I use in Go. Interfaces not only define a contract for which struct-based implementations should adhere, but they also provide a mechanism for which struct methods can be mocked. While I've experimented with the mock package in testify, I've come to prefer the mock functionality which is provided by mockgen.
  • Google's internal Go style guide
    5 projects | /r/golang | 18 Nov 2022
    Where we do use mocks, we primarily use GoMock.
  • How do you write/generate mocks for testing?
    5 projects | /r/golang | 21 Sep 2022
    Currently migrating from moq to https://github.com/golang/mock
  • golang unit testing
    3 projects | dev.to | 3 Sep 2022
    I use gomock or mockery for mocking the interfaces and testify for evaluating tests

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pgx and gomock 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

mockery - A mock code autogenerator for Go

Testify - A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library

counterfeiter - A tool for generating self-contained, type-safe test doubles in go

monkey - Monkey patching in Go

go-sqlmock - Sql mock driver for golang to test database interactions

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.