What are your favorite packages to use?

1. chi

   1 104 19,261 7.5 Go

   lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services

   

   https://github.com/derision-test/go-mockgen for the best mocks Ive ever had in Go https://github.com/go-chi/chi for HTTP routing

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3. logrus

   2 38 25,074 2.2 Go

   Structured, pluggable logging for Go.

   

   logrus for logging. It's slower than zerolog but I've been used it for so long, so if performance doesn't really matter (e.g. simple CLI) I still prefer to use it.

4. zerolog

   3 39 11,070 5.3 Go

   Zero Allocation JSON Logger

   

   logrus and, more recently, zerolog for logging

5. spew

   4 6 6,176 0.0 Go

   Implements a deep pretty printer for Go data structures to aid in debugging

   

   go-spew : Really helpful to pretty print user defined data structures, makes debugging a lot easier.

6. Gin

   5 165 80,745 7.6 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.

   

   This has been fixed in Gin v1.7.2.

7. pgx

   6 72 11,442 9.1 Go

   PostgreSQL driver and toolkit for Go

   

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8. go-json

   7 24 3,241 4.9 Go

   Fast JSON encoder/decoder compatible with encoding/json for Go

   

   go-json for encoding/decoding

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10. aconfig

    8 2 565 3.3 Go

    Simple, useful and opinionated config loader.

    

11. urfave/cli

    9 26 22,842 9.3 Go

    A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go (by urfave)

    

12. pggen

    10 11 294 6.6 Go

    Generate type-safe Go for any Postgres query. If Postgres can run the query, pggen can generate code for it.

    

    Agree with your choices, except go-json which I never tried. pggen is fantastic. Love that library. The underlying driver, pgx, is also really well written.

13. go-mockgen

    11 3 58 5.6 Go

    

    https://github.com/derision-test/go-mockgen for the best mocks Ive ever had in Go https://github.com/go-chi/chi for HTTP routing

14. sqlf

    12 5 127 3.0 Go

    sqlf generates parameterized SQL statements in Go, sprintf style

    

    https://github.com/keegancsmith/sqlf for building parameterized SQL queries

15. protoactor-go

    13 22 5,159 8.6 Go

    Proto Actor - Ultra fast distributed actors for Go, C# and Java/Kotlin

    

    https://github.com/AsynkronIT/protoactor-go for actor model framework (situational)

16. GJSON

    14 39 14,721 5.9 Go

    Get JSON values quickly - JSON parser for Go

    

    I love https://github.com/tidwall/gjson and https://github.com/tidwall/sjson for fast and frictionless json reading and editing. It makes life so much easier for cases where you don't want to model a tree of nightmare-ish API responses, like Elasticsearch.

17. sjson

    15 7 2,506 0.0 Go

    Set JSON values very quickly in Go

    

    I love https://github.com/tidwall/gjson and https://github.com/tidwall/sjson for fast and frictionless json reading and editing. It makes life so much easier for cases where you don't want to model a tree of nightmare-ish API responses, like Elasticsearch.

18. go-sdk

    16 1 162 4.2 Go

    Discontinued A composable toolbox of libraries to build everything from CLIs to enterprise applications. (by blend)

    

    This is probably not popular approach on here, but we maintain a public version of our internal go monorepo sdk package as an open source repo on github: https://github.com/blend/go-sdk, and I'll use this for personal stuff as well.

19. errors

    17 31 7,511 0.2 Go

    Discontinued Simple error handling primitives

    

    https://github.com/pkg/errors is a must-have prior to the Go2 error proposals landing.

20. godotenv

    18 20 8,909 3.7 Go

    A Go port of Ruby's dotenv library (Loads environment variables from .env files)

    

    https://github.com/joho/godotenv for loading env vars from a file gets used a lot here.

21. httprouter

    19 38 16,772 4.7 Go

    A high performance HTTP request router that scales well

    

    httprouter for routing. Several years ago (5 years ago maybe) when I started using Go, I always tried to use the best and fastest packages and this package boasts itself as the fastest router for Go. Fast forward to today, I'm not sure if it still the fastest around, but it's stable and I've never had issues with it, so I keep using it.

22. Testify

    20 71 24,218 8.2 Go

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

    

    testify for testing. I like it since it make the testing codes shorter and tidy.

23. cobra

    21 140 39,727 7.9 Go

    A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

    

    cobra for CLI. It's easy to use and I've been using it for so long I don't have any plan to change it.

24. sqlx

    22 73 16,706 3.3 Go

    general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql

    

    sqlx which make working with database painless. It's really vital for my job since as an ordinary developer my jobs often revolved on creating CRUD apps. It also uses SQL query, so I don't have to learn any ORMs.

25. decimal

    23 15 6,622 6.8 Go

    Arbitrary-precision fixed-point decimal numbers in Go

    

    decimal, one of the first Go library that created to work with decimal and monetary value.

26. qamel

    24 1 178 0.0 Go

    Simple QML binding for Go

    

    qamel, simple QML binding for Go. Before pandemic I often use it for creating simple GUI apps for my clients or friends. It's features are limited, only works for Windows and Linux (though there is PR for ARM devices which I haven't able to check) but it's good enough for my case.

27. dom

    25 1 37 2.7 Go

    Package for access and manipulate DOM element in HTML file (by go-shiori)

    

    dom, package for manipulating HTML document with APIs that kinda similar with DOM manipulation in JS. I use it whenever I need to scrape data from websites.

28. dbgen

    26 1 0 0.0 Go

    Discontinued Generate database code from SQL files, using sqlx as its base library

    dbgen, a simple package for generating database codes for MySQL and MariaDB. As I said before, my job mostly on CRUDs and it's quite a pain to write database codes in Go using sqlx as its base. For each database operation I need to do at least three operations:

29. koanf

    27 14 3,034 6.3 Go

    Simple, extremely lightweight, extensible, configuration management library for Go. Supports JSON, TOML, YAML, env, command line, file, S3 etc. Alternative to viper.

    

    https://github.com/knadh/koanf for config management. Readme contains why it's a good alternative to viper.

30. ulid

    28 11 4,642 4.5 Go

    Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier (ULID) in Go

    

    oklog/ulid to generate IDs. coreos/go-oidc for validating JWTs I get from auth. google/go-cmp for comparing structs in tests (unless the project is already using Testify). spf13/pflag because life's too short for Go's flag handling. getkin/kin-openapi for validating reqests/responses against my OpenAPI spec (in tests).

31. go-oidc

    29 9 2,064 3.9 Go

    A Go OpenID Connect client.

    

    oklog/ulid to generate IDs. coreos/go-oidc for validating JWTs I get from auth. google/go-cmp for comparing structs in tests (unless the project is already using Testify). spf13/pflag because life's too short for Go's flag handling. getkin/kin-openapi for validating reqests/responses against my OpenAPI spec (in tests).

32. go-cmp

    30 7 4,332 3.6 Go

    Package for comparing Go values in tests

    

    oklog/ulid to generate IDs. coreos/go-oidc for validating JWTs I get from auth. google/go-cmp for comparing structs in tests (unless the project is already using Testify). spf13/pflag because life's too short for Go's flag handling. getkin/kin-openapi for validating reqests/responses against my OpenAPI spec (in tests).

33. pflag

    31 13 2,516 3.9 Go

    Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.

    

    oklog/ulid to generate IDs. coreos/go-oidc for validating JWTs I get from auth. google/go-cmp for comparing structs in tests (unless the project is already using Testify). spf13/pflag because life's too short for Go's flag handling. getkin/kin-openapi for validating reqests/responses against my OpenAPI spec (in tests).

34. kin-openapi

    32 6 2,790 8.1 Go

    OpenAPI 3.0 (and Swagger v2) implementation for Go (parsing, converting, validation, and more)

    

    oklog/ulid to generate IDs. coreos/go-oidc for validating JWTs I get from auth. google/go-cmp for comparing structs in tests (unless the project is already using Testify). spf13/pflag because life's too short for Go's flag handling. getkin/kin-openapi for validating reqests/responses against my OpenAPI spec (in tests).

35. gogo-factory

    33 2 16 0.0 Go

    

    Are there people seek a fixture replacement package like factory_bot (a ruby gem)? I build a similar package (gogo-factory). It is helpful to setup test data.

36. migrate

    34 77 16,180 7.2 Go

    Database migrations. CLI and Golang library.

    

    For my simple case i just wrote the migrations as queries in my test code. But I'm pretty sure you could use go-migrate for that

37. swag

    35 41 11,405 7.5 Go

    Automatically generate RESTful API documentation with Swagger 2.0 for Go.

    

    Swag Swagger doc generator

38. zap

    36 54 22,689 7.0 Go

    Blazing fast, structured, leveled logging in Go.

    

    Zap Levelled logging

39. ginkgo

    37 20 8,554 8.5 Go

    A Modern Testing Framework for Go

    

    Ginkgo Behavioural test framework

40. jsoniter

    38 13 13,599 0.0 Go

    A high-performance 100% compatible drop-in replacement of "encoding/json" (by json-iterator)

    

    jsoniter for low level access to JSON encode and decode

41. Task

    39 123 12,291 9.6 Go

    A task runner / simpler Make alternative written in Go

    

    Go Task A simple task runner which is cleaner IMHO than using Makefiles (opinionated but works for me)

42. goreman

    40 1 2,529 3.4 Go

    foreman clone written in go language

    

    Goreman A handy little process runner I find useful for various things

43. direnv

    41 179 13,212 7.4 Go

    unclutter your .profile

    

    Direnv Very useful for maintaining environments per directory

44. athens

    42 12 4,509 7.9 Go

    A Go module datastore and proxy (by gomods)

    

    Athens A self hosted Go module proxy which has saved our asses more than once.

45. bqb

    43 13 163 3.9 Go

    BQB is a lightweight and easy to use query builder that works with sqlite, mysql, mariadb, postgres, and others.

    

    bqb for query building. Used to use squirrel, but performance and complexity lead me to make bqb.

46. gqlgen

    44 45 10,159 9.6 Go

    go generate based graphql server library

    

    gqlgen for GraphQL services. After trying several packages, gqlgen has been the most stable and easy to use.

47. gopherjs

    45 18 12,876 7.9 Go

    A compiler from Go to JavaScript for running Go code in a browser

    

    gopherjs has been great with a personal experiment to implement a virtual dom framework within Go.

48. go-formatter

    46 114 139,687 9.5 Go

    A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software

    

    Also recommend the Awesome Go list.

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