The Go libraries that never failed us: 22 libraries you need to know

• requests

  25 1,387 6.7 Go

  HTTP requests for Gophers (by earthboundkid)

https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2021/requests-golang-http-client/ talks about why that’s the API. To be honest, I think a lot of people have an irrational fear of mutability. If you want to make a clone, use .Clone(). If not then don’t. But if you don’t like mutability, you’re going to dislike using the Go standard library, which uses mutable package variables all over the place.

• be

  7 88 6.5 Go

  The Go test helper for minimalists

For testing, use be

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• mow.cli

  2 870 0.0 Go

  A versatile library for building CLI applications in Go

I never got on with the CLI libs everyone usually recommends, but shoutout to mow.cli which I actually like

• sqlc

  169 10,950 9.6 Go

  Generate type-safe code from SQL

  

is it though? I couldn't find sqlx in sqlc's go.mod - https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc/blob/main/go.sum

• is

  7 1,709 2.7 Go

  Professional lightweight testing mini-framework for Go.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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