Goravel: A Go framework inspired by Laravel

1. sqlc

   1 182 14,792 9.0 Go

   Generate type-safe code from SQL

   

   What would you use if ORM is to be avoided?

   Perhaps something like https://github.com/sqlc-dev/sqlc ?

2. CodeRabbit

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3. sqlx

   2 73 16,838 3.3 Go

   general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql

   

4. loco

   3 19 7,519 9.8 Rust

   🚂 🦀 The one-person framework for Rust for side-projects and startups

   

   Not sure how close it is to Laravel, but loco.rs claims to be Ruby on Rails for Rust, so it might be close to what you want.

   Link: https://loco.rs/

5. ActiveAdmin

   4 25 9,571 9.1 Ruby

   The administration framework for Ruby on Rails applications.

   

   Same reason IDEs — when you really know them — allow for quicker development compared to using primitive text editors with a bunch of third-party plugins duck-taped together. When you understand the framework, everything is written to the same standard, behaves in similar ways, and is where you expect it to be. Adding things like background job processing requires changing one line of config.

   Also, one major thing I'm missing personally is automatically generated OpenAPI specifications + API documentation & API clients autogenerated from it. Last time I checked Go, you had to write the spec manually, which is just ridiculous — the code already has all the necessary info, and duplicating that effort is time-consuming and error-prone (the spec says one thing, the code does another). This may be out of date, but if it still isn't, it is enough to disqualify the stack completely for me.

   Also, I don't think there anything similar in the Go world to these administration panels:

   https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/ref/contrib/admin/

   https://activeadmin.info

   https://nova.laravel.com

   which are just fantastic for intranet projects and/or quick prototyping.

6. oapi-codegen

   5 72 6,947 8.6 Go

   Generate Go client and server boilerplate from OpenAPI 3 specifications

   

   A simple Google search returns https://github.com/oapi-codegen/oapi-codegen

   I get wanting to be productive and gravitating towards patterns you’re familiar with but in the end it’s all bloat. http can do routing and patterns and cookies and sessions. database/sql can do your DAL work. uuid (various implementations) work for user/tenant uid+oid obfuscation. JWT libs for auth. You can literally json.unmarshal your config for your whole application or use godotenv to use environment variables. template/html for views. Golang has batteries, it’s just you don’t know what you don’t know so you expect a certain perspective that isn’t how we do things. Like joining a new company, things are different here. If you spent some time to learn the “go way” you’d realize that you don’t need the bloat, you just need the structure. The “where I expect it”.

7. scany

   6 6 1,396 2.5 Go

   Library for scanning data from a database into Go structs and more

   

   You don’t need an ORM for that, though. I’ve used Scany in the past, and it was great. Raw, parameterized SQL that is easy to reason about and easy to scan into your structs:

   https://github.com/georgysavva/scany

8. pocketbase

   7 208 45,399 9.7 Go

   Open Source realtime backend in 1 file

   

   For quick prototyping I really like https://pocketbase.io/

   I am actually using this for a production site that gets 1 million requests per day.

9. InfluxDB

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

   

10. Dapper

    8 60 17,832 6.3 C#

    Dapper - a simple object mapper for .Net

    

    This is the sweet spot in my opinion. I haven't been in the .NET world for a few years but there's a very similar library called Dapper. Best "ORM" I ever used.

    https://github.com/DapperLib/Dapper

11. swag

    9 41 11,585 7.7 Go

    Automatically generate RESTful API documentation with Swagger 2.0 for Go.

    

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