viper VS config

Compare viper vs config and see what are their differences.

viper

Go configuration with fangs (by spf13)

config

JSON or YAML configuration wrapper with convenient access methods. (by olebedev)
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viper config
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25,756 268
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8.8 0.0
6 days ago over 1 year ago
Go Go
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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 2024-04-22.

config

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

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

What are some alternatives?

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

godotenv - A Go port of Ruby's dotenv library (Loads environment variables from .env files)

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

envconfig - Small library to read your configuration from environment variables

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

cleanenv - ✨Clean and minimalistic environment configuration reader for Golang

hjson - Hjson for Go

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

go-aws-ssm - Go package that interfaces with AWS System Manager

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

xdg - A cross platform package that follows the XDG Standard