Awesome Go

A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-python.

• Awesome Go
  • Web Frameworks
    • Middlewares
  • Template Engine
  • Authentication and OAuth
  • Database
  • Database Drivers
  • Imagery
  • Text Processing
  • Testing
  • Audio
• Resources
  • Websites
  • (e)Books

Web Frameworks

Full stack web frameworks.

• Martini - Martini is a powerful package for quickly writing modular web applications/services in Golang.
• Gorilla - Gorilla is a web toolkit for the Go programming language.
• Gin - Gin is a web framework written in Go! It features a martini-like API with much better performance, up to 40 times faster. If you need performance and good productivity.
• Goji - Goji is a minimalistic web framework for Golang that's high in antioxidants.
• web.go - A simple framework to write webapps in Go.
• pat - Sinatra style pattern muxer for Go’s net/http library, by the author of Sinatra.
• Revel - A high-productivity web framework for the Go language.
• Beego - beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for the Go programming language.
• traffic - Sinatra inspired regexp/pattern mux and web framework for Go.
• httprouter - A high performance router. Use this and the standard http handlers to form a very high performance web framework.

Middlewares

• negroni - Idiomatic HTTP Middleware for Golang
• alice - Painless middleware chaining for Go

Template Engine

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

• mustache - A Go implementation of the Mustache template language.
• kasia.go - Templating system for HTML and other text documents - go implementation.
• gold - Gold is a template engine for Go. This simplifies HTML coding in Go web application development. This is influenced by Slim and Jade.
• Razor - Razor view engine for Golang.

Authentication and OAuth

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

• goauth - A Go library for doing header-based OAuth over HTTP or HTTPS. Mostly created for working with Twitter.
• httpauth - HTTP Authentication middlewares.

Database

Databases implemented in Go.

• tiedot - Your NoSQL database powered by Golang.
• diskv - A home-grown disk-backed key-value store.
• bolt - A low-level key/value database for Go.
• go-cache - An in-memory key:value store/cache (similar to Memcached) library for Go, suitable for single-machine applications.

Database Drivers

Libraties for connecting and operating databases.

• Relational Databases
  • pq - Pure Go Postgres driver for database/sql.
  • go-pgsql - A PostgreSQL client package for the Go Programming Language.
  • GoMySQL - A quite complete threadsafe MySQL client library written in Go.
  • go-sqlite3 - SQLite3 driver for go that using database/sql.
  • go-db - Generic database API for Go.
• NoSQL Databases
  • mgo - MongoDB driver for the Go language that implements a rich and well tested selection of features under a very simple API following standard Go idioms.
  • redis - A simple, powerful Redis client for Go.
  • Neo4j-GO - Neo4j REST Client in golang.
  • gocouch - Couchdb client for Go.
  • gomemcache - memcache client library for the Go programming language.

Imagery

Libraries for manipulating images.

• img - A selection of image manipulation tools.
• svgo - Go Language Library for SVG generation.
• resize - Image resizing for the Go with common interpolation methods.

Text Processing

• Specific Formats
  • yaml - Implements a YAML 1.2 parser in Go.
  • go-pkg-xmlx - Extension to the standard Go XML package. Maintains a node tree that allows forward/backwards browsing and exposes some simple single/multi-node search functions.
  • go-pkg-rss - This package reads RSS and Atom feeds and provides a caching mechanism that adheres to the feed specs.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• gocheck - A more advanced testing framework alternative to gotest.
• GoSpec - BDD-style testing framework for the Go programming language.
• gospecify - This provides a BDD syntax for testing your Go code. It should be familiar to anybody who has used libraries such as rspec.
• gomock - Mocking framework for the Go programming language.
• mockhttp.go - Mock object for Go http.ResponseWriter
• assert - Asserts to Go testing
• Hamcrest - fluent framework for declarative Matcher objects that, when applied to input values, produce self-describing results.
• restit - A Go micro framework to help writing RESTful API integration test.
• ginkgo - BDD Testing Framework for Go

Audio

Libraries for manipulating audio.

• PortAudio - Go bindings for the PortAudio audio I/O library.
• gosndfile - Go bindings for libsndfile.
• go-sox - libsox bindings for go.

Resources

Where to discover new Go libraries.

Websites

• r/Golang - News about Go.
• Trending Go repositories on GitHub today - Good place to find new Go libraries.
• Flipboard - Go Magazine - A collection of Go articles and tutorials.

Twitter

• @golang_news

(e)Books

• golang-book

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome!