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Top 23 Go Tool Projects

  1. air

    ☁️ Live reload for Go apps

    Project mention: A simple todo app with htmx/go/templ/tailwind | dev.to | 2025-04-08

    in order to achive that we are going to use our friend Makefile and also templ's feature to proxy request to our app and with some injected javascript code to reload our browser. But it would we cool if also the server would restart with a change (otherwise the thempl changes won't be visible). For this https://github.com/air-verse/air comes to the resque. Let's put it all together and it will become crystal clear. let's create our make file

  2. CodeRabbit

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  3. scan4all

    Official repository vuls Scan: 15000+PoCs; 23 kinds of application password crack; 7000+Web fingerprints; 146 protocols and 90000+ rules Port scanning; Fuzz, HW, awesome BugBounty( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)...

  4. vfox

    A cross-platform and extendable version manager with support for Java, Node.js, Flutter, .Net & more

    Project mention: The Ultimate Guide to Node.js Version Managers: NVM, NVS, fnm, Volta, and asdf | Part 3 | dev.to | 2024-09-12

    Another tool quite similar to asdf is vfox. It supports version management for various programming languages. It also has an MSI installer, unlike asdf, and hence is painless to install for the majority of Windows users. In fact, the function is quite similar to asdf in that it supports Node.js versions by simply changing a configuration.

  5. mc

    Unix like utilities for object store

    Project mention: Hetzner finally released Object Storage 🎉 | dev.to | 2024-09-24

    On Windows, you can download the ZIP file from the Minio Client Releases page and extract it to a folder of your choice. Then add the binary to your PATH:

  6. gormt

    database to golang struct

  7. goutil

    💪 Helper Utils(800+): int, byte, string, array/slice, map, struct, dump, convert/format, error, web/http, cli/flag, OS/ENV, filesystem, system, test/assert, time and more. Go 常用的一些工具函数:数字,字符串,数组,Map,结构体,反射,文本,文件,错误,时间日期,特殊处理,格式化,常用信息获取等等

  8. DevSecOps

    ♾️ Collection and Roadmap for everyone who wants DevSecOps. Hope your DevOps are more safe 😎 (by hahwul)

  9. InfluxDB

    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

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  10. kubevpn

    KubeVPN offers a Cloud Native Dev Environment that connects to kubernetes cluster network.

    Project mention: KubeVPN: Revolutionizing Kubernetes Local Development | dev.to | 2025-02-24

    # Contribute your first PR git clone https://github.com/kubenetworks/kubevpn.git make kubevpn

  11. upterm

    Instant Terminal Sharing (by owenthereal)

  12. MobileHackersWeapons

    Mobile Hacker's Weapons / A collection of cool tools used by Mobile hackers. Happy hacking , Happy bug-hunting

  13. Blade

    Better asset workflow for iOS developers. Generate Xcode image catalogs for iOS / OSX app icons, universal images, and more. (by jondot)

  14. ergo

    The management of multiple apps running over different ports made easy (by cristianoliveira)

  15. protolock

    Protocol Buffer companion tool. Track your .proto files and prevent changes to messages and services which impact API compatibility.

  16. lilipod

    Lilipod is a simple container manager, able to download, unpack and use OCI images from various container registries.

  17. lit-bb-hack-tools

    Little Bug Bounty & Hacking Tools⚔️

  18. shef

    Shef is a powerful CLI framework for cooking up dynamic shell recipes. (by eduardoagarcia)

    Project mention: Shef | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-10
  19. skywalking-eyes

    A full-featured license tool to check and fix license headers and resolve dependencies' licenses.

    Project mention: HawkEye: A Simple license header checker and formatter in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-28

    Oh neat! I use https://github.com/apache/skywalking-eyes extensively for this, but am not particularly in love with it.

  20. redis-inventory

    CLI tool to see redis memory usage by keys in hierarchical way. Think of disk inventory but for redis.

  21. KittyStager

    KittyStager is a simple stage 0 C2. It is made of a web server to host the shellcode and an implant, called kitten. The purpose of this project is to be able to have a web server and some kitten and be able to use the with any shellcode.

  22. hotbuild

    a cross platform hot compilation tool for golang

  23. trackman

    Execute commands as a workflow.

  24. arch-go

    Architecture checks for Go projects

  25. reftools

    reftools - refactoring tools for Go

  26. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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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).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source Tool projects in Go? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 air 20,114
2 scan4all 5,655
3 vfox 3,196
4 mc 3,015
5 gormt 2,396
6 goutil 2,135
7 DevSecOps 1,918
8 kubevpn 1,122
9 upterm 915
10 MobileHackersWeapons 856
11 Blade 815
12 ergo 634
13 protolock 611
14 lilipod 435
15 lit-bb-hack-tools 353
16 shef 278
17 skywalking-eyes 272
18 redis-inventory 244
19 KittyStager 218
20 hotbuild 213
21 trackman 197
22 arch-go 195
23 reftools 148

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