How to start a Go project in 2023

• gow

  5 764 6.0 Go

  Missing watch mode for Go commands. Watch Go files and execute a command like "go run" or "go test" (by mitranim)

  The article mentions GOW[0] for a file watcher. If anyone is looking for a non-go specific one, I've really enjoyed reflex[1]. Makes it super easy to reload different parts of a project based on what type of file has changed.

  [0]https://github.com/mitranim/gow

• SaaSHub

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

  

• reflex

  15 3,387 0.0 Go

  Run a command when files change (by cespare)

• golangci-lint

  74 15,994 9.8 Go

  Fast linters runner for Go

  

  Things I can't live without in a new Go project in no particular order:

  - https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint - meta-linter

  - https://goreleaser.com - automate release workflows

  - https://magefile.org - build tool that can version your tools

  - https://github.com/ory/dockertest/v3 - run containers for e2e testing

  - https://github.com/ecordell/optgen - generate functional options

  - https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer - generate String()

  - https://mvdan.cc/gofumpt - stricter gofmt

  - https://github.com/stretchr/testify - test assertion library

  - https://github.com/rs/zerolog - logging

  - https://github.com/spf13/cobra - CLI framework

  FWIW, I just lifted all the tools we use for https://github.com/authzed/spicedb

  We've also written some custom linters that might be useful for other folks: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/tree/main/tools/analyzers

• goreleaser

  62 14,105 9.9 Go

  Release engineering, simplified

  

  Things I can't live without in a new Go project in no particular order:

  - https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint - meta-linter

  - https://goreleaser.com - automate release workflows

  - https://magefile.org - build tool that can version your tools

  - https://github.com/ory/dockertest/v3 - run containers for e2e testing

  - https://github.com/ecordell/optgen - generate functional options

  - https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer - generate String()

  - https://mvdan.cc/gofumpt - stricter gofmt

  - https://github.com/stretchr/testify - test assertion library

  - https://github.com/rs/zerolog - logging

  - https://github.com/spf13/cobra - CLI framework

  FWIW, I just lifted all the tools we use for https://github.com/authzed/spicedb

  We've also written some custom linters that might be useful for other folks: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/tree/main/tools/analyzers

• dockertest

  48 4,220 7.7 Go

  Write better integration tests! Dockertest helps you boot up ephermal docker images for your Go tests with minimal work.

  

  Things I can't live without in a new Go project in no particular order:

  - https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint - meta-linter

  - https://goreleaser.com - automate release workflows

  - https://magefile.org - build tool that can version your tools

  - https://github.com/ory/dockertest/v3 - run containers for e2e testing

  - https://github.com/ecordell/optgen - generate functional options

  - https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer - generate String()

  - https://mvdan.cc/gofumpt - stricter gofmt

  - https://github.com/stretchr/testify - test assertion library

  - https://github.com/rs/zerolog - logging

  - https://github.com/spf13/cobra - CLI framework

  FWIW, I just lifted all the tools we use for https://github.com/authzed/spicedb

  We've also written some custom linters that might be useful for other folks: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/tree/main/tools/analyzers

• optgen

  1 17 3.3 Go

  Things I can't live without in a new Go project in no particular order:

  - https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint - meta-linter

  - https://goreleaser.com - automate release workflows

  - https://magefile.org - build tool that can version your tools

  - https://github.com/ory/dockertest/v3 - run containers for e2e testing

  - https://github.com/ecordell/optgen - generate functional options

  - https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer - generate String()

  - https://mvdan.cc/gofumpt - stricter gofmt

  - https://github.com/stretchr/testify - test assertion library

  - https://github.com/rs/zerolog - logging

  - https://github.com/spf13/cobra - CLI framework

  FWIW, I just lifted all the tools we use for https://github.com/authzed/spicedb

  We've also written some custom linters that might be useful for other folks: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/tree/main/tools/analyzers

• Testify

  71 23,793 8.2 Go

  A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library

  

  Things I can't live without in a new Go project in no particular order:

  - https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint - meta-linter

  - https://goreleaser.com - automate release workflows

  - https://magefile.org - build tool that can version your tools

  - https://github.com/ory/dockertest/v3 - run containers for e2e testing

  - https://github.com/ecordell/optgen - generate functional options

  - https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer - generate String()

  - https://mvdan.cc/gofumpt - stricter gofmt

  - https://github.com/stretchr/testify - test assertion library

  - https://github.com/rs/zerolog - logging

  - https://github.com/spf13/cobra - CLI framework

  FWIW, I just lifted all the tools we use for https://github.com/authzed/spicedb

  We've also written some custom linters that might be useful for other folks: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/tree/main/tools/analyzers

• zerolog

  39 10,825 5.5 Go

  Zero Allocation JSON Logger

  Things I can't live without in a new Go project in no particular order:

  - https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint - meta-linter

  - https://goreleaser.com - automate release workflows

  - https://magefile.org - build tool that can version your tools

  - https://github.com/ory/dockertest/v3 - run containers for e2e testing

  - https://github.com/ecordell/optgen - generate functional options

  - https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer - generate String()

  - https://mvdan.cc/gofumpt - stricter gofmt

  - https://github.com/stretchr/testify - test assertion library

  - https://github.com/rs/zerolog - logging

  - https://github.com/spf13/cobra - CLI framework

  FWIW, I just lifted all the tools we use for https://github.com/authzed/spicedb

  We've also written some custom linters that might be useful for other folks: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/tree/main/tools/analyzers

• cobra

  138 38,814 6.8 Go

  A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

  Things I can't live without in a new Go project in no particular order:

  - https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint - meta-linter

  - https://goreleaser.com - automate release workflows

  - https://magefile.org - build tool that can version your tools

  - https://github.com/ory/dockertest/v3 - run containers for e2e testing

  - https://github.com/ecordell/optgen - generate functional options

  - https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer - generate String()

  - https://mvdan.cc/gofumpt - stricter gofmt

  - https://github.com/stretchr/testify - test assertion library

  - https://github.com/rs/zerolog - logging

  - https://github.com/spf13/cobra - CLI framework

  FWIW, I just lifted all the tools we use for https://github.com/authzed/spicedb

  We've also written some custom linters that might be useful for other folks: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/tree/main/tools/analyzers

• spicedb

  40 5,279 9.8 Go

  Open Source, Google Zanzibar-inspired database for scalably storing and querying fine-grained authorization data

  

  Things I can't live without in a new Go project in no particular order:

  - https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint - meta-linter

  - https://goreleaser.com - automate release workflows

  - https://magefile.org - build tool that can version your tools

  - https://github.com/ory/dockertest/v3 - run containers for e2e testing

  - https://github.com/ecordell/optgen - generate functional options

  - https://golang.org/x/tools/cmd/stringer - generate String()

  - https://mvdan.cc/gofumpt - stricter gofmt

  - https://github.com/stretchr/testify - test assertion library

  - https://github.com/rs/zerolog - logging

  - https://github.com/spf13/cobra - CLI framework

  FWIW, I just lifted all the tools we use for https://github.com/authzed/spicedb

  We've also written some custom linters that might be useful for other folks: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/tree/main/tools/analyzers

• entr

  51 4,772 6.1 C

  Run arbitrary commands when files change

• chi

  103 18,938 7.1 Go

  lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services

  

  A better answer would be some recommendations for component pieces. e.g., I will need most of the essential things in https://github.com/go-chi/chi, so why bother rolling a version myself? The same goes for things like sqlx. I'm averse to leaning on a "framework," but do find good value in targeted libraries.

• subcommands

  2 755 0.0 Go

  Go subcommand library.

  

  Cobra is just so… intense and complicated. Google's Subcommands is enough for 99.9% of projects I've worked on

  - https://github.com/google/subcommands

• goda

  3 1,413 4.4 Go

  Go Dependency Analysis toolkit

  

  which prints a sorted ASCII table with stats like 'size:4.4MB loc:134171' for each package, which is an estimate the savings you'd get if you eliminated that package from your binary.

  Things that are unexpectedly large tend to jump to the top.

  The examples in the README are the best way to get started after 'go install github.com/loov/goda@latest'.

  [0] https://github.com/loov/goda

• air

  55 18,938 8.0 Go

  ☁️ Live reload for Go apps

  

  Just to add to the list there is also https://github.com/cosmtrek/air

• thefuck

  307 88,868 1.7 Python

  Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

  >spellcheck on commands

  I prefer to just type "fuck":

  https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

• Reloader

  34 7,889 9.4 Go

  A Kubernetes controller to watch changes in ConfigMap and Secrets and do rolling upgrades on Pods with their associated Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet and DeploymentConfig – [✩Star] if you're using it!

  

  The go k8s packages are pretty bloated - this may also just be a niche case. If you are looking to get secrets with hot reloading, you might also consider mounting a file or setting env vars and coupling it with this reloading operator: https://github.com/stakater/Reloader

• testcontainers-go

  25 3,766 9.6 Go

  Testcontainers for Go is a Go package that makes it simple to create and clean up container-based dependencies for automated integration/smoke tests. The clean, easy-to-use API enables developers to programmatically define containers that should be run as part of a test and clean up those resources when the test is done.

  

• goleak

  6 4,636 5.5 Go

  Goroutine leak detector

  

• go-binsize-treemap

  2 447 5.5 Go

  🔍 Go binary size SVG treemap

  go-binsize-treemap[1] is the best tool for this by a large margin. I came across it because of the exact same reason as you did actually, k8s client bloating my binary massively.

  [1] https://github.com/nikolaydubina/go-binsize-treemap

• go

  2,193 124,987 10.0 Go

  The Go programming language

  

  - might be the same info as https://github.com/golang/go/milestone/279 in a different form

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