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Top 23 Go task-runner Projects
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Your environment will have been setup to run your app via Air. You will need to customize Air in order to run PocketBase.
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Stream
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Funny coincidence, I use this often and just opened an issue earlier today: https://github.com/go-task/task/issues/2303 :)
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realize
Realize is the #1 Golang Task Runner which enhance your workflow by automating the most common tasks and using the best performing Golang live reloading.
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Project mention: Show HN: Dagu 1.17-beta – Run complex workflows without the Airflow complexity | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-05-30
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Project mention: Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-08
I found this a few years ago and was quite inspired by it. I then more recently found https://xcfile.dev/ which is a great way to implement these sort of scripts directly in the project's README.
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gow
Missing watch mode for Go commands. Watch Go files and execute a command like "go run" or "go test" (by mitranim)
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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gronx
Lightweight, fast and dependency-free Cron expression parser (due checker, next/prev due date finder), task runner, job scheduler and/or daemon for Golang (tested on v1.13+) and standalone usage. If you are bold, use it to replace crontab entirely.
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spot
A user-friendly and efficient tool for the effortless deployment and configuration of resources on remote machines. (by umputun)
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taskctl
Concurrent task runner, developer's routine tasks automation toolkit. Simple modern alternative to GNU Make 🧰
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Orbit
:satellite: A cross-platform task runner for executing commands and generating files from templates (by gulien)
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Project mention: Show HN: Arelo – A simple, flexible file watcher for auto-restarting commands | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-10
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Project mention: Show HN: Type-safe, persistent, embedded task queues and job runner (Go, SQLite) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-24
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Project mention: Show HN: Flow – YAML-driven CLI automation with a customizable TUI | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-17
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I am really moving spok
It’s golang based but very like make.
https://github.com/FollowTheProcess/spok
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yatr
🏃 Yet Another Task Runner (or yatr for a short) allows you to organize and automate your routine operations that you normally do in Makefile (or else) for each project.
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go-smartpoll
Package smartpoll offers dynamic, reactive scheduling for synchronized polling of multiple data points.
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SaaSHub
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Go task-runner discussion
Go task-runner related posts
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Mise: Dev tools, env vars, task runner
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Just: Just a Command Runner
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Can you help me make my makefile for go projects better or suggest an alternative?
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Is your makefile supposed to be a justfile?
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Show HN: Xc – A Markdown Defined Task Runner
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wgo: a live reload tool for Go
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Which Tools Do You use daily for Golang development?
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Index
What are some of the best open-source task-runner projects in Go? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | air | 20,941 |
| 2 | Task | 13,100 |
| 3 | realize | 4,454 |
| 4 | dagu | 2,365 |
| 5 | mmake | 1,727 |
| 6 | xc | 1,301 |
| 7 | gow | 842 |
| 8 | run | 486 |
| 9 | gronx | 456 |
| 10 | spot | 452 |
| 11 | flowmatic | 387 |
| 12 | taskctl | 312 |
| 13 | Orbit | 185 |
| 14 | arelo | 115 |
| 15 | leprechaun | 105 |
| 16 | backlite | 97 |
| 17 | flow | 91 |
| 18 | valet | 56 |
| 19 | stackup | 19 |
| 20 | z | 12 |
| 21 | spok | 10 |
| 22 | yatr | 9 |
| 23 | go-smartpoll | 2 |
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