service vs scaffold

service

Run go programs as a service on major platforms. (by kardianos)

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scaffold

Generate scaffold project layout for Go. (by catchplay)

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service		scaffold
	Project
5	Mentions	-
4,275	Stars	147
-	Growth	0.7%
0.0	Activity	0.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	over 5 years ago
Go	Language	Go
zlib License	License	MIT License

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.

service

Posts with mentions or reviews of service. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-15.

Kardianos Service for Rust?
2 projects | /r/rust | 15 Feb 2023

One of the most useful Go packages I have found is: https://github.com/kardianos/service
Native Messaging and Kardianos Windows Service
2 projects | /r/golang | 14 Jul 2022

Kardianos Windows Service: Windows Service
How to auto start golang app in ubuntu?
3 projects | /r/golang | 4 Apr 2022

Also a good one for cross platform solution is kardianos/service
Why use Cobra for microservices?
3 projects | /r/golang | 31 Mar 2022

Here's a library that I use to create system services: https://github.com/kardianos/service
Managing systemd services with Go
2 projects | /r/golang | 19 Dec 2021

I use this lib successfully for cross platform service management. The systemd parts have worked flawlessly and are extendable when needed. https://github.com/kardianos/service

scaffold

Posts with mentions or reviews of scaffold. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning scaffold yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing service and scaffold you can also consider the following projects:

jennifer - Jennifer is a code generator for Go

cookiecutter-golang - A Go project template

go-systemd - Go bindings to systemd socket activation, journal, D-Bus, and unit files

golang-templates/seed - Go application GitHub repository template.

cobra - A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

golang-standards/project-layout - Standard Go Project Layout

go-starter - An opinionated production-ready SQL-/Swagger-first RESTful JSON API written in Go, highly integrated with VSCode DevContainers by allaboutapps.

service - Starter-kit for writing services in Go using Kubernetes.

website - [mirror] Home of the go.dev and golang.org websites

go-restful-api - An idiomatic Go REST API starter kit (boilerplate) following the SOLID principles and Clean Architecture

go-sample - Go Project Sample Layout

modern-go-application - Modern Go Application example