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

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  • gqlgen

    go generate based graphql server library

    gqlgen for GraphQL services. It's well documented and maintained.

  • httpexpect

    End-to-end HTTP and REST API testing for Go.

    httpexpect for testing HTTP services. Works great with both RESTful and GraphQL.

  • 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.

  • bqb

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

    (plug) bqb for very simple query building.

  • goose

    A database migration tool. Supports SQL migrations and Go functions.

    goose for simple database migrations.

  • sqlx

    general purpose extensions to golang's database/sql

    sqlx for database connections. It allows scanning into structs which saves a lot of time and is easier to use.

  • chi

    lightweight, idiomatic and composable router for building Go HTTP services

  • bun

    SQL-first Golang ORM (by uptrace)

    https://github.com/uptrace/bun For SQL building.

  • 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.

  • cobra

    A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

    Cobra for generating CLI's

  • resty

    Simple HTTP and REST client library for Go

    Go-resty makes it a lot easier to create a http client and much more readable for developers.

  • 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)

    rueidis For fast client-side caching, distributed locking and Pub/Sub with Redis.

  • badger

    Fast key-value DB in Go.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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