# Awesome Go A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by [awesome-python](https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python). - [Awesome Go](#awesome-go) - [Web Frameworks](#web-frameworks) - [Middlewares](#middlewares) - [Template Engine](#template-engine) - [Authentication and OAuth](#authentication-and-oauth) - [Database](#database) - [Database Drivers](#database-drivers) - [ORM](#orm) - [Imagery](#imagery) - [Text Processing](#text-processing) - [Testing](#testing) - [Audio](#audio) - [DevOps Tools](#devops-tools) - [Resources](#resources) - [Websites](#websites) - [(e)Books](#ebooks) ## Web Frameworks *Full stack web frameworks.* * [Martini](http://martini.codegangsta.io/) - Martini is a powerful package for quickly writing modular web applications/services in Golang. * [Gorilla](http://www.gorillatoolkit.org/) - Gorilla is a web toolkit for the Go programming language. * [Gin](http://gin-gonic.github.io/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](https://goji.io) - Goji is a minimalistic web framework for Golang that's high in antioxidants. * [web.go](http://webgo.io/) - A simple framework to write webapps in Go. * [pat](https://github.com/bmizerany/pat) - Sinatra style pattern muxer for Go’s net/http library, by the author of Sinatra. * [Revel](http://revel.github.io/) - A high-productivity web framework for the Go language. * [Beego](http://beego.me/) - beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for the Go programming language. * [traffic](https://github.com/pilu/traffic) - Sinatra inspired regexp/pattern mux and web framework for Go. * [httprouter](https://github.com/julienschmidt/httprouter) - A high performance router. Use this and the standard http handlers to form a very high performance web framework. * [gocraft/web](https://github.com/gocraft/web) - A mux and middleware package in Go. * [mango](https://github.com/paulbellamy/mango) - Mango is a modular web-application framework for Go, inspired by Rack, and PEP333. ### Middlewares * [negroni](https://github.com/codegangsta/negroni) - Idiomatic HTTP Middleware for Golang * [alice](https://github.com/justinas/alice) - Painless middleware chaining for Go ## Template Engine *Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.* * [mustache](https://github.com/hoisie/mustache) - A Go implementation of the Mustache template language. * [kasia.go](https://github.com/ziutek/kasia.go) - Templating system for HTML and other text documents - go implementation. * [gold](https://github.com/yosssi/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](https://github.com/sipin/gorazor) - Razor view engine for Golang. * [Pongo](https://github.com/flosch/pongo) - A Django-like template engine for Go. ## Authentication and OAuth *Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.* * [goauth](http://alloy-d.net/goauth/) - A Go library for doing header-based OAuth over HTTP or HTTPS. Mostly created for working with Twitter. * [httpauth](https://github.com/goji/httpauth) - HTTP Authentication middlewares. ## Database *Databases implemented in Go.* * [tiedot](https://github.com/HouzuoGuo/tiedot) - Your NoSQL database powered by Golang. * [diskv](https://github.com/peterbourgon/diskv) - A home-grown disk-backed key-value store. * [bolt](https://github.com/boltdb/bolt) - A low-level key/value database for Go. * [go-cache](https://github.com/pmylund/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](https://github.com/lib/pq) - Pure Go Postgres driver for database/sql. * [go-pgsql](https://github.com/lxn/go-pgsql) - A PostgreSQL client package for the Go Programming Language. * [GoMySQL](https://github.com/Philio/GoMySQL) - A quite complete threadsafe MySQL client library written in Go. * [go-sqlite3](https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3) - SQLite3 driver for go that using database/sql. * [go-db](https://github.com/phf/go-db) - Generic database API for Go. * NoSQL Databases * [mgo](http://labix.org/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](https://github.com/hoisie/redis) - A simple, powerful Redis client for Go. * [redigo](https://github.com/garyburd/redigo) - Redigo is a Go client for the Redis database. * [Neo4j-GO](https://github.com/davemeehan/Neo4j-GO) - Neo4j REST Client in golang. * [gocouch](https://github.com/hoisie/gocouch) - Couchdb client for Go. * [gomemcache](https://github.com/bradfitz/gomemcache/) - memcache client library for the Go programming language. ## ORM *Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques.* * [BeeDB](https://github.com/astaxie/beedb) - go ORM,support database/sql interface，pq/mysql/sqlite. * [GORM](https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm) - The fantastic ORM library for Golang, aims to be developer friendly. * [gorp](https://github.com/coopernurse/gorp) - Go Relational Persistence, ORM-ish library for Go. * [hood](https://github.com/eaigner/hood) - Database agnostic ORM for Go. * [QBS](https://github.com/coocood/qbs) - Stands for Query By Struct. A Go ORM. * [Xorm](https://github.com/go-xorm/xorm) - Simple and powerful ORM for Go. * [upper.io/db](https://upper.io/db) - Single interface for interacting with different data sources through the use of adapters that wrap mature database drivers. ## Imagery *Libraries for manipulating images.* * [img](https://github.com/hawx/img) - A selection of image manipulation tools. * [svgo](https://github.com/ajstarks/svgo) - Go Language Library for SVG generation. * [resize](https://github.com/nfnt/resize) - Image resizing for the Go with common interpolation methods. ## Text Processing * Specific Formats * [yaml](https://bitbucket.org/zombiezen/yaml) - Implements a YAML 1.2 parser in Go. * [go-pkg-xmlx](https://github.com/jteeuwen/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](https://github.com/jteeuwen/go-pkg-rss) - This package reads RSS and Atom feeds and provides a caching mechanism that adheres to the feed specs. * [blackfriday](https://github.com/russross/blackfriday) - Markdown processor in Go ## Testing *Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.* * [gocheck](http://labix.org/gocheck) - A more advanced testing framework alternative to gotest. * [GoSpec](https://github.com/orfjackal/gospec) - BDD-style testing framework for the Go programming language. * [gospecify](https://github.com/stesla/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](https://code.google.com/p/gomock/) - Mocking framework for the Go programming language. * [mockhttp.go](https://github.com/tv42/mockhttp.go) - Mock object for Go http.ResponseWriter * [assert](https://github.com/bmizerany/assert) - Asserts to Go testing * [Hamcrest](https://github.com/rdrdr/hamcrest) - fluent framework for declarative Matcher objects that, when applied to input values, produce self-describing results. * [restit](https://github.com/yookoala/restit) - A Go micro framework to help writing RESTful API integration test. * [ginkgo](http://onsi.github.io/ginkgo/) - BDD Testing Framework for Go ## Audio *Libraries for manipulating audio.* * [PortAudio](https://code.google.com/p/portaudio-go/) - Go bindings for the PortAudio audio I/O library. * [gosndfile](https://github.com/mkb218/gosndfile) - Go bindings for libsndfile. * [go-sox](https://github.com/krig/go-sox) - libsox bindings for go. ## DevOps Tools *Software and libraries for DevOps.* # Resources Where to discover new Go libraries. ## Websites * [r/Golang](http://www.reddit.com/r/golang) - News about Go. * [Trending Go repositories on GitHub today](https://github.com/trending?l=go) - Good place to find new Go libraries. * [Flipboard - Go Magazine](https://flipboard.com/section/the-golang-magazine-bVP7nS) - A collection of Go articles and tutorials. ### Tutorials * [A Tour of Go](http://tour.golang.org/) - Interactive tour of Go * [An Introduction to Programming in Go](http://www.golang-book.com/) - A beginner's introduction to programming which uses the Go language * [Working with Go](https://github.com/mkaz/working-with-go) - An intro to go for experienced programmers * [Go By Example](https://gobyexample.com/) - A hands-on introduction to Go using annotated example programs ## Twitter * [@golang_news](https://twitter.com/golang_news) ## (e)Books * [golang-book](http://www.golang-book.com/) # Contributing Your contributions are always welcome!