What are the most useful packages you know for Go?

• chi

  101 17,050 7.2 Go

  lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services

  

https://github.com/go-chi/chi - when net/http is not enough this is the router I use. gorilla/mux is slow, didn't bother trying anything else after chi.

• go-formatter

  108 120,785 9.1 Go

  A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software

It depends on what you would like to do with Go, but good starting points could be https://awesomeopensource.com/projects/go and may have a look at https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go .

• 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.

  

• zerolog

  39 9,763 7.9 Go

  Zero Allocation JSON Logger

https://github.com/rs/zerolog - one of the best structural logging library

• websocket

  15 3,437 8.2 Go

  Minimal and idiomatic WebSocket library for Go (by nhooyr)

https://github.com/nhooyr/websocket - websocket implementation. Recently migrated to it from gorilla/websocket. Nicer API and faster but nothing really wrong with gorilla. Just wanted to try something new.

• pgx

  71 9,414 9.2 Go

  PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go

https://github.com/jackc/pgx - excellent library for Postgre. Especially if you need PSQL specific features

• goqu

  23 2,232 5.6 Go

  SQL builder and query library for golang

github.com/doug-martin/goqu - SQL query builder. Don't like ORMs in general, didn't like GORM. The API is a bit verbose but it does the job and supports tons of SQL features including database specific ones.

• errors

  30 7,511 0.2 Go

  Discontinued Simple error handling primitives

  

github.com/pkg/errors - don't like how wrapping is done in standard library. This is better. Been using this library forever and it's even compatible with recent standard library changes.

• 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.

  

• Testify

  64 22,019 8.6 Go

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

  

github.com/stretchr/testify - very useful for tests

• Gin

  152 75,469 8.5 Go

  Gin is a HTTP web framework written in Go (Golang). It features a Martini-like API with much better performance -- up to 40 times faster. If you need smashing performance, get yourself some Gin.

  

https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin - My goto framework for writing microservices

• gomock

  40 9,010 2.5 Go

  Discontinued GoMock is a mocking framework for the Go programming language. (by golang)

  

https://github.com/golang/mock - Auto generate mocks from interfaces for unit testing

• gonum

  24 7,249 8.2 Go

  Gonum is a set of numeric libraries for the Go programming language. It contains libraries for matrices, statistics, optimization, and more

  

https://github.com/gonum/gonum - Contains almost everything one needs for numerical analysis. The guys over there are porting LAPACK to pure Go with explicit tests.

• requests

  25 1,385 7.2 Go

  HTTP requests for Gophers (by earthboundkid)

• sqlx

  70 15,365 0.0 Go

  general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql

https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx : Great extension of the standard database/sql package, but 100% compatible with it

• multierrgroup

  1 3 3.1 Go

Because I like hashicorp's multierror, I created https://github.com/andrewstuart/multierrgroup which basically provides the same API but returns all errors encountered, if any.

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com sponsored

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

  

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