viper VS godotenv

Compare viper vs godotenv and see what are their differences.

viper

Go configuration with fangs (by spf13)

godotenv

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

Posts with mentions or reviews of viper. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-20.

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
  • Libraries you use most of your projects?
    30 projects | /r/golang | 2 Nov 2022
    https://github.com/joho/godotenv - load env file (or sometimes https://github.com/spf13/viper or load https://github.com/yosuke-furukawa/json5 directly)
    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.
  • 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
  • Build a REST API with Golang and MongoDB - Fiber Version
    7 projects | dev.to | 2 Jan 2022
    Go Environment Loader

What are some alternatives?

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

envconfig - Small library to read your configuration from environment variables

koanf - Simple, extremely lightweight, extensible, configuration management library for Go. Support for JSON, TOML, YAML, env, command line, file, S3 etc. Alternative to viper.

kelseyhightower/envconfig - Golang library for managing configuration data from environment variables

cleanenv - ✨Clean and minimalistic environment configuration reader for Golang

mapstructure - Go library for decoding generic map values into native Go structures and vice versa.

ini - Package ini provides INI file read and write functionality in Go

goConfig - goconfig uses a struct as input and populates the fields of this struct with parameters from command line, environment variables and configuration file.

config - JSON or YAML configuration wrapper with convenient access methods.

go-toml - Go library for the TOML file format

env - A simple and zero-dependencies library to parse environment variables into structs

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.

node-config - Node.js Application Configuration