Open source Go projects to contribute (beginners)

• go-zero

  102 27,600 9.6 Go

  A cloud-native Go microservices framework with cli tool for productivity.

  

• rueidis

  28 1,274 8.6 Go

  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)

  

• 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.

  

• serviceq

  3 74 2.6 Go

  Super fault-tolerant HTTP load balancer & queue. White paper for reference - https://github.com/gptankit/serviceq-paper

https://github.com/gptankit/serviceq - a load balancer and queue (need http2 support) https://github.com/gptankit/go-wasm - wasm experiments in go (if you want to help community adapt to wasm using go)

• go-wasm

  2 54 0.0 JavaScript

  Go+WebAssembly experiments

https://github.com/gptankit/serviceq - a load balancer and queue (need http2 support) https://github.com/gptankit/go-wasm - wasm experiments in go (if you want to help community adapt to wasm using go)

• core

  51 662 7.4 Go

  Backend server API handling user mgmt, database, storage and real-time component (by staticbackendhq)

  

• keploy

  69 3,316 9.6 Go

  Test generation for Developers. Generate tests and stubs for your application that actually work!

  

• Benthos

  76 7,559 9.6 Go

  Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane

  

github.com/dapr and github.com/jeffail/benthos are two projects that are very approachable code bases and I think both have pretty bright prospects.

• 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.

  

• infracost

  85 10,239 9.7 Go

  Cloud cost estimates for Terraform in pull requests💰📉 Shift FinOps Left!

  

Infracost https://github.com/infracost/Infracost (cli tool for cloud cost estimates from terraform) is always looking for new contributors. I’m one of the maintainers and we’re an approachable lot who are happy to help you through your first dip into open source.

• changie

  26 585 8.9 Go

  Automated changelog tool for preparing releases with lots of customization options

A pretty simple CLI tool for handling changelogs and release notes, not a lot of issues at the moment though: https://github.com/miniscruff/changie.

• gostradamus

  1 197 3.5 Go

  Gostradamus: Better DateTimes for Go 🕰️

• go-plantuml

  1 358 0.0 Go

  Generate plantuml diagrams from go source files or directories

• datastation

  25 2,853 0.0 TypeScript

  App to easily query, script, and visualize data from every database, file, and API.

  

Some example projects: DataStation (desktop GUI for querying every kind of database, scripting and graphing the results) and dsq (a CLI companion for running SQL queries on many kinds of files), and go-json (a library for fast JSON encoding of arrays of large objects).

• dsq

  20 3,619 4.3 Go

  Commandline tool for running SQL queries against JSON, CSV, Excel, Parquet, and more.

  

Some example projects: DataStation (desktop GUI for querying every kind of database, scripting and graphing the results) and dsq (a CLI companion for running SQL queries on many kinds of files), and go-json (a library for fast JSON encoding of arrays of large objects).

• go-json

  1 46 0.0 Go

  Fast Go JSON encoder for large arrays of objects (by multiprocessio)

  

Some example projects: DataStation (desktop GUI for querying every kind of database, scripting and graphing the results) and dsq (a CLI companion for running SQL queries on many kinds of files), and go-json (a library for fast JSON encoding of arrays of large objects).

• gdg

  10 298 8.5 Go

  Grafana Dashboard Manager

  

https://github.com/netsage-project/gdg it's a grafana dashboard manager. Called grafana dash-n-grab (gdg) since gdm was taken. :)

• go-c2dmc

  5 8 0.0 Go

  A Go package for converting RGB and other color formats/colorspaces into DMC thread colors (DMC color name and floss number)

I’m the creator of https://github.com/syke99/go-c2dmc a Go package for converting RGBA, LAB, and Hexcode color values to the nearest matching DMC thread color. It’s a bit niche of a package, and it’s been a few months since I’ve worked on it, but I’m always open to contributors and maintainers joining the project. If anyone would like to contribute and/or be a maintainer, DM me and we can discuss more

• Mantis

  2 4 3.8 Go

  Sphire Mantis is a broadly featured Go helper library with standalone packages (by sphireinc)

  

I'm the creator of https://github.com/sphireinc/Mantis - would love any ideas and/or fixes or better ways to do things. All constructive criticism is welcome.

• bifrost

  10 515 9.5 Go

  Cross-platform p2p daemon and library with pluggable transports and WebAssembly support. (by aperturerobotics)

  

I'm the creator of, and looking for contributors + early adopters of https://github.com/aperturerobotics/bifrost - check it out!

• slow-http

  1 0 1.8 Go

  Simulate slow http connections for testing

• shopify-csv-download

  1 51 0.0 Go

  Download a shopify site in a csv format that the shopify importer understands

• kaniko

  49 13,882 9.5 Go

  Build Container Images In Kubernetes

  

This issue needs a fix.

• fyne

  150 23,218 9.6 Go

  Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design

  

The https://fyne.io project is always looking for new contributors, it has a few “good first issue” items marked at https://github.com/fyne-io/fyne/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22good+first+issue%22 The bonus here is you get to see your improvements as it’s a graphical toolkit :).

• gio

  62 1,403 9.2 Go

  Mirror of the Gio main repository (https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio)

  

I think that gio is also need support :)

• xk6-browser

  3 313 9.8 Go

  k6 extension that adds support for browser automation and end-to-end web testing via the Chrome Devtools Protocol

  

• gorrs

  2 9 10.0 Go

  Generic Robot Framework remote library server implementation in go

If you're interested in test automation frameworks & tools, Robot Framework, XML-RPC, or code reflection, could use some help - bug fixes, enhancements, reviewing PR. https://github.com/daluu/gorrs

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com sponsored

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

  

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