Good reference projects to learn from, for beginners

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/golang

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  • fsnotify

    Discontinued Cross-platform file system notifications for Go.

    Depends on the project. I'm working on a project where https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify is an integral part of the application, so I've been using that as a reference.

  • awesome-go-education

    Discontinued A curated list of awesome articles and resources for learning and practicing Go and its related technologies.

    If you want some large projects that are written in go: Kubernetes: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes Moby: https://github.com/moby/moby A general list of awesome go projects: https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go Or a special education page: https://mehdihadeli.github.io/awesome-go-education/

  • WorkOS

    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.

  • kubernetes

    Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

    If you want some large projects that are written in go: Kubernetes: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes Moby: https://github.com/moby/moby A general list of awesome go projects: https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go Or a special education page: https://mehdihadeli.github.io/awesome-go-education/

  • Moby

    The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems

    If you want some large projects that are written in go: Kubernetes: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes Moby: https://github.com/moby/moby A general list of awesome go projects: https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go Or a special education page: https://mehdihadeli.github.io/awesome-go-education/

  • go-formatter

    A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software

    If you want some large projects that are written in go: Kubernetes: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes Moby: https://github.com/moby/moby A general list of awesome go projects: https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go Or a special education page: https://mehdihadeli.github.io/awesome-go-education/

  • wtf

    WTF Dial is an example web application written in Go. (by benbjohnson)

    His work is always worth having a look at: https://github.com/benbjohnson/wtf

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    The Go programming language

  • InfluxDB

    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.

  • rueidis

    Discontinued A fast Golang Redis client that supports Client Side Caching, Auto Pipelining, Generics OM, RedisJSON, RedisBloom, RediSearch, etc. [Moved to: https://github.com/redis/rueidis] (by rueian)

    I think it might also be a good example for beginners. https://github.com/rueian/rueidis

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