# Awesome Go A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by [awesome-python](https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python). ### Contributing Please take a quick gander at the [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) first. Thanks to all [contributors](https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go/graphs/contributors); you rock! ### Contents - [Awesome Go](#awesome-go) - [Audio & Music](#audiomusic) - [Authentication & OAuth](#authentication--oauth) - [CSS Preprocessors](#css-preprocessors) - [CUI](#cui) - [Database](#database) - [Database Drivers](#database-drivers) - [Date & Time](#date--time) - [Distributed Systems](#distributed-systems) - [Email](#email) - [Embeddable Scripting Languages](#embeddable-scripting-languages) - [Forms](#forms) - [Game Development](#game-development) - [Generation & Generics](#generation--generics) - [GUI](#gui) - [Hardware](#hardware) - [Images](#images) - [Logging](#logging) - [Machine Learning](#machine-learning) - [Messaging](#messaging) - [Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous) - [Natural Language Processing](#natural-language-processing) - [Networking](#networking) - [OpenGL](#opengl) - [ORM](#orm) - [Package Management](#package-management) - [Science and Data Analysis](#science-and-data-analysis) - [Serialization](#serialization) - [Template Engines](#template-engines) - [Testing](#testing) - [Text Processing](#text-processing) - [Third-party APIs](#third-party-apis) - [Utilities](#utilities) - [Version Control](#version-control) - [Video](#video) - [Web Frameworks](#web-frameworks) - [Middlewares](#middlewares) - [Windows](#windows) - [Tools](#tools) - [Code Analysis](#code-analysis) - [Editor Plugins](#editor-plugins) - [Software Packages](#software-packages) - [DevOps Tools](#devops-tools) - [Other Software](#other-software) - [Resources](#resources) - [Benchmarks](#benchmarks) - [Conferences](#conferences) - [E-Books](#e-books) - [Twitter](#twitter) - [Websites](#websites) - [Tutorials](#tutorials) ## Audio/Music *Libraries for manipulating audio.* * [flac](https://github.com/eaburns/flac) - A native Go FLAC decoder. * [go-sox](https://github.com/krig/go-sox) - libsox bindings for go. * [PortAudio](https://code.google.com/p/portaudio-go/) - Go bindings for the PortAudio audio I/O library. * [portmidi](https://github.com/rakyll/portmidi) - Go bindings for PortMidi. * [vorbis](https://github.com/mccoyst/vorbis) - A "native" Go Vorbis decoder (uses CGO, but has no dependencies). * [waveform](https://github.com/mdlayher/waveform) - Go package capable of generating waveform images from audio streams. ## Authentication & OAuth *Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.* * [Go-AWS-Auth](https://github.com/smartystreets/go-aws-auth) - AWS (Amazon Web Services) request signing library. * [go.auth](https://github.com/bradrydzewski/go.auth) - Authentication API for Go web applications. * [go-jose](https://github.com/square/go-jose) - A fairly complete implementation of the JOSE working group's JSON Web Token, JSON Web Signatures, and JSON Web Encryption specs. * [gorbac](https://github.com/mikespook/gorbac) - provides a lightweight role-based access control (RBAC) implementation in Golang. * [httpauth](https://github.com/goji/httpauth) - HTTP Authentication middleware. * [jwt-go](https://github.com/dgrijalva/jwt-go) - Golang implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT). * [oauth2](https://github.com/golang/oauth2) - Successor of goauth2. Generic OAuth 2.0 package that comes with JWT, Google APIs, Compute Engine and App Engine support. * [osin](https://github.com/RangelReale/osin) - Golang OAuth2 server library. ## CSS Preprocessors *Libraries for preprocessing CSS files* * [gcss](https://github.com/yosssi/gcss) - Pure Go CSS Preprocessor. ## CUI *Libraries for building CUI Applications* * [chalk](https://github.com/ttacon/chalk) - Intuitive package for prettifying terminal/console output. * [color](https://github.com/fatih/color) - Versatile package for colored terminal output. * [go-colortext](https://github.com/daviddengcn/go-colortext) - Go library for color output in terminals. * [termbox-go](https://github.com/nsf/termbox-go) - Termbox is a library for creating cross-platform text-based interfaces. ## Database *Generic data structures and algorithms for databases in Go.* * [bitset](https://github.com/willf/bitset) - Go package implementing bitsets. * [bloom](https://github.com/dataence/bloom) - Bloom filters implemented in Go. * [encoding](https://github.com/dataence/encoding) - Integer Compression Libraries for Go. * [mafsa](https://github.com/smartystreets/mafsa) - MA-FSA implementation with Minimal Perfect Hashing * [skiplist](https://github.com/gansidui/skiplist) - Skiplist implementation in Go * [trie](https://github.com/derekparker/trie) - Trie implementation in Go *Databases implemented in Go.* * [bolt](https://github.com/boltdb/bolt) - A low-level key/value database for Go. * [cache2go](https://github.com/muesli/cache2go) - An in-memory key:value cache which supports automatic invalidation based on timeouts. * [diskv](https://github.com/peterbourgon/diskv) - A home-grown disk-backed key-value store. * [forestdb](https://github.com/couchbaselabs/goforestdb) - Go bindings for ForestDB. * [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. * [goleveldb](https://github.com/syndtr/goleveldb) - An implementation of the [LevelDB](https://code.google.com/p/leveldb/) key/value database in the Go. * [groupcache](https://github.com/golang/groupcache) - Groupcache is a caching and cache-filling library, intended as a replacement for memcached in many cases. * [influxdb](https://github.com/influxdb/influxdb) - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics * [ledisdb](https://github.com/siddontang/ledisdb) - Ledisdb is a high performance NoSQL like Redis based on LevelDB. * [tiedot](https://github.com/HouzuoGuo/tiedot) - Your NoSQL database powered by Golang. *Database tools.* * [go-mysql](https://github.com/siddontang/go-mysql) - A go toolset to handle MySQL protocol and replication. * [go-mysql-elasticsearch](https://github.com/siddontang/go-mysql-elasticsearch) - Sync your MySQL data into Elasticsearch automatically. * [pgweb](https://github.com/sosedoff/pgweb) - A web-based PostgreSQL database browser * [pravasan](https://github.com/pravasan/pravasan) - Simple Migration tool - currently for MySQL but planning to support soon for Postgres, SQLite, MongoDB, etc., * [vitess](https://github.com/youtube/vitess) - vitess provides servers and tools which facilitate scaling of MySQL databases for large scale web services. *SQL query builder, libraries for building and using SQL.* * [Dotsql](https://github.com/gchaincl/dotsql) - Go library that helps you keep sql files in one place and use it with ease. * [Squirrel](https://github.com/lann/squirrel) - Go library that helps you build SQL queries. ## Database Drivers *Libraries for connecting and operating databases. (see [Testing](#testing) for mock drivers)* * Relational Databases * [go-adodb](https://github.com/mattn/go-adodb) - Microsoft ActiveX Object DataBase driver for go that using database/sql. * [go-mssqldb](https://github.com/denisenkom/go-mssqldb) - Microsoft MSSQL driver prototype in go language. * [go-oci8](https://github.com/mattn/go-oci8) - Oracle driver for go that using database/sql. * [go-pgsql](https://github.com/lxn/go-pgsql) - A PostgreSQL client package for the Go Programming Language. * [go-sql-driver/mysql](https://github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql) - MySQL driver for Go. * [go-sqlite3](https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3) - SQLite3 driver for go that using database/sql. * [pq](https://github.com/lib/pq) - Pure Go Postgres driver for database/sql. * NoSQL Databases * [aerospike-client-go](https://github.com/aerospike/aerospike-client-go) - Aerospike client in Go language. * [cayley](https://github.com/google/cayley) - A graph database with support for multiple backends. * [go-couchbase](https://github.com/couchbaselabs/go-couchbase) - Couchbase client in Go * [gocql](http://gocql.github.io) - A Go language driver for Apache Cassandra. * [gorethink](https://github.com/dancannon/gorethink) - Go language driver for RethinkDB * [gomemcache](https://github.com/bradfitz/gomemcache/) - memcache client library for the Go programming language. * [mgo](http://godoc.org/labix.org/v2/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. * [neoism](https://github.com/jmcvetta/neoism) - Neo4j client for Golang * [neo4j](https://github.com/cihangir/neo4j) - Neo4j Rest API Bindings for Golang * [Neo4j-GO](https://github.com/davemeehan/Neo4j-GO) - Neo4j REST Client in golang. * [redigo](https://github.com/garyburd/redigo) - Redigo is a Go client for the Redis database. * [redis](https://github.com/hoisie/redis) - A simple, powerful Redis client for Go. * Search and Analytic Databases * [bleve](https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve) - A modern text indexing library for go. * [elastic](https://github.com/olivere/elastic) - Elasticsearch client for Google Go. * [elastigo](https://github.com/mattbaird/elastigo) - A Elasticsearch client library. * [goes](https://github.com/belogik/goes) - A library to interact with Elasticsearch. ## Date & Time *Libraries for working with dates and times.* * [now](https://github.com/jinzhu/now) - Now is a time toolkit for golang. ## Distributed Systems *Packages that help with building Distributed Systems.* * [goraft](https://github.com/goraft/raft) - A Go implementation of the Raft distributed consensus protocol. * [raft](https://github.com/hashicorp/raft) - Golang implementation of the Raft consensus protocol, by HashiCorp. ## Email *Libraries that implement email creation and sending* * [email](https://github.com/jordan-wright/email) - A robust and flexible email library for Go. * [Gomail](https://github.com/go-gomail/gomail/) - Gomail is a very simple and powerful package to send emails. * [MailHog](https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog) - Email and SMTP testing with web and API interface * [smtp](https://github.com/mailhog/smtp) - SMTP server protocol state machine ## Embeddable Scripting Languages *Embedding other languages inside your go code* * [agora](https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/agora) - Dynamically typed, embeddable programming language in Go * [anko](https://github.com/mattn/anko) - Scriptable interpreter written in Go * [gisp](https://github.com/jcla1/gisp) - Simple LISP in Go * [golua](https://github.com/aarzilli/golua) - Go bindings for Lua C API * [go-duktape](https://github.com/olebedev/go-duktape) - Duktape JavaScript engine bindings for Go * [go-python](https://github.com/sbinet/go-python) - naive go bindings to the CPython C-API * [otto](https://github.com/robertkrimen/otto) - A JavaScript interpreter written in Go * [purl](https://github.com/ian-kent/purl) - Perl 5.18.2 embedded in Go ## Forms *Libraries for working with forms.* * [bind](https://github.com/robfig/bind) - Bind form data to any Go values * [binding](https://github.com/mholt/binding) - Binds form and JSON data from net/http Request to struct. * [formam](https://github.com/monoculum/formam) - decode form's values into a struct. * [nosurf](https://github.com/justinas/nosurf) - A CSRF protection middleware for Go. ## Game Development *Awesome game development libraries.* * [GarageEngine](https://github.com/vova616/GarageEngine) - 2d game engine written in Go working on OpenGL. * [glop](https://github.com/runningwild/glop) - Glop (Game Library Of Power) is a fairly simple cross-platform game library. * [go3d](https://github.com/ungerik/go3d) - A performance oriented 2D/3D math package for Go * [go-astar](https://github.com/beefsack/go-astar) - Go implementation of the A* path finding algorithm * [go-collada](https://github.com/GlenKelley/go-collada) - Go package for working with the Collada file format. * [gonet](https://github.com/xtaci/gonet) - A game server skeleton implemented with golang * [Leaf](https://github.com/name5566/leaf) - A lightweight game server framework ## Generation & Generics *Tools to enhance the language with features like generics via code generation* * [gen](https://github.com/clipperhouse/gen) - Code generation tool for ‘generics’-like functionality. * [go-linq](https://github.com/ahmetalpbalkan/go-linq) - .NET LINQ-like query methods for Go. * [pkgreflect](https://github.com/ungerik/pkgreflect) - A Go preprocessor for package scoped reflection. ## GUI *Libraries for building GUI Applications* * [go-gtk](http://mattn.github.io/go-gtk/) - Go bindings for GTK * [gotk3](https://github.com/conformal/gotk3) - Go bindings for GTK3. * [go-qml](https://github.com/go-qml/qml) - QML support for the Go language * [ui](https://github.com/andlabs/ui) - Platform-native GUI library for Go. * [walk](https://github.com/lxn/walk) - Windows application library kit for Go. ## Hardware *Libraries for interacting with hardware.* * [gobot](https://github.com/hybridgroup/gobot) - Framework for robotics, physical computing, and the Internet of Things ## Images *Libraries for manipulating images.* * [geo_pattern](https://github.com/pravj/geo_pattern) - Create beautiful generative image patterns from a string. * [gift](https://github.com/disintegration/gift) - Package of image processing filters. * [go-cairo](https://github.com/ungerik/go-cairo) - Go binding for the cairo graphics library. * [go-gd](https://github.com/bolknote/go-gd) - Go binding for GD library * [go-nude](https://github.com/koyachi/go-nude) - Nudity detection with Go. * [go-opencv](https://github.com/lazywei/go-opencv) - Go bindings for OpenCV. * [go-webcolors](https://github.com/jyotiska/go-webcolors) - Port of webcolors library from Python to Go. * [img](https://github.com/hawx/img) - A selection of image manipulation tools. * [imagick](https://github.com/gographics/imagick) - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API. * [imaging](https://github.com/disintegration/imaging) - Simple Go image processing package. * [resize](https://github.com/nfnt/resize) - Image resizing for the Go with common interpolation methods. * [rez](https://github.com/bamiaux/rez) - Image resizing in pure Go and SIMD. * [smartcrop](https://github.com/muesli/smartcrop) - Finds good crops for arbitrary images and crop sizes * [svgo](https://github.com/ajstarks/svgo) - Go Language Library for SVG generation. ## Logging *Libraries for generating and working with log files.* * [glog](https://github.com/golang/glog) - Leveled execution logs for Go. * [gologex](https://github.com/chzyer/gologex) - An golang log lib, supports tracking and level, wrap by standard log lib * [go-log](https://github.com/siddontang/go-log) - Log lib supports level and multi handlers. * [go-log](https://github.com/ian-kent/go-log) - A log4j implementation in Go. * [go-logger](https://github.com/apsdehal/go-logger) - Simple logger of Go Programs, with level handlers. * [hiprus](https://github.com/nubo/hiprus) - [logrus](https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus) plug-in to send errors to a channel in [Hipchat](https://hipchat.com). * [logrus](https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus) - Structured, pluggable logging for Go. * [logrusly](https://github.com/sebest/logrusly) - [logrus](https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus) plug-in to send errors to a [Loggly](https://www.loggly.com/). * [lumberjack](https://github.com/natefinch/lumberjack) - Simple rolling logger, implements io.WriteCloser. * [seelog](https://github.com/cihub/seelog) - logging functionality with flexible dispatching, filtering, and formatting. * [slackrus](https://github.com/johntdyer/slackrus) - [logrus](https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus) plug-in to send errors to a channel in [Slack](https://slack.com). * [stdlog](https://github.com/alexcesaro/log) - Stdlog is an object-oriented library providing leveled logging. It is very useful for cron jobs. ## Machine Learning *Libraries for Machine Learning.* * [bayesian](https://github.com/jbrukh/bayesian) - Naive Bayesian Classification for Golang. * [CloudForest](https://github.com/ryanbressler/CloudForest) - Fast, flexible, multi-threaded ensembles of decision trees for machine learning in pure Go. * [gobrain](https://github.com/goml/gobrain) - Neural Networks written in go * [go-fann](https://github.com/white-pony/go-fann) - Go bindings for Fast Artificial Neural Networks(FANN) library. * [go-galib](https://github.com/thoj/go-galib) - Genetic Algorithms library written in Go / golang * [golinear](https://github.com/danieldk/golinear) - liblinear bindings for Go * [GoLearn](https://github.com/sjwhitworth/golearn) - General Machine Learning library for Go. * [go-pr](https://github.com/daviddengcn/go-pr) - Pattern recognition package in Go lang. * [goRecommend](https://github.com/timkaye11/goRecommend) - Recommendation Algorithms library written in Go. * [libsvm](https://github.com/datastream/libsvm) - libsvm golang version derived work based on LIBSVM 3.14. * [mlgo](https://code.google.com/p/mlgo/) - This project aims to provide minimalistic machine learning algorithms in Go. * [neural-go](https://github.com/schuyler/neural-go) - A multilayer perceptron network implemented in Go, with training via backpropagation. * [probab](https://code.google.com/p/probab/) - Probability distribution functions. Bayesian inference. Written in pure Go. * [regommend](https://github.com/muesli/regommend) - Recommendation & collaborative filtering engine * [shield](https://github.com/eaigner/shield) - Bayesian text classifier with flexible tokenizers and storage backends for Go ## Messaging *Libraries that implement messaging systems* * [dbus](https://github.com/godbus/dbus) - Native Go bindings for D-Bus. * [EventBus](https://github.com/asaskevich/EventBus) - The lightweight event bus with async compatibility. * [go-nsq](https://github.com/bitly/go-nsq) - the official Go package for NSQ * [gopush-cluster](https://github.com/Terry-Mao/gopush-cluster) - gopush-cluster is a go push server cluster. * [NATS](https://github.com/apcera/nats) - A lightweight and highly performant publish-subscribe and distributed queueing messaging system. * [sarama](https://github.com/Shopify/sarama) - A Go library for Apache Kafka. * [Uniqush-Push](https://github.com/uniqush/uniqush-push) - A redis backed unified push service for server-side notifications to mobile devices. * [zmq4](https://github.com/pebbe/zmq4) - A Go interface to ZeroMQ version 4. Also available for [version 3](https://github.com/pebbe/zmq3) and [version 2](https://github.com/pebbe/zmq2). ## Miscellaneous *These libraries were placed here because none of the other categories seemed to fit* * [autoflags](https://github.com/artyom/autoflags) - Go package to automatically define command line flags from struct fields * [browscap_go](https://github.com/fromYukki/browscap_go) - GoLang Library for [Browser Capabilities Project](http://browscap.org/). * [envcfg](https://github.com/tomazk/envcfg) - Un-marshaling environment variables to Go structs. * [envconf](https://github.com/ian-kent/envconf) - Configuration from environment * [gofigure](https://github.com/ian-kent/gofigure) - Go application configuration made easy * [viper](https://github.com/spf13/viper) - Go configuration with fangs * [xstrings](https://github.com/huandu/xstrings) - A collection of useful string functions ported from other languages. ## Natural Language Processing *Libraries for working with human languages.* * [go-eco](https://code.google.com/p/go-eco/) - Similarity, dissimilarity and distance matrices; diversity, equitability and inequality measures; species richness estimators; coenocline models. * [golibstemmer](https://github.com/rjohnsondev/golibstemmer) - Go bindings for the snowball libstemmer library including porter 2 * [go-nlp](https://github.com/nuance/go-nlp) - Utilities for working with discrete probability distributions and other tools useful for doing NLP work. * [go-porterstemmer](https://github.com/reiver/go-porterstemmer) - A native Go clean room implementation of the Porter Stemming algorithm. * [go-stem](https://github.com/agonopol/go-stem) - Implementation of the porter stemming algorithm. * [gounidecode](https://github.com/fiam/gounidecode) - Unicode transliterator (also known as unidecode) for Go * [icu](https://github.com/goodsign/icu) - Cgo binding for icu4c C library detection and conversion functions. Guaranteed compatibility with version 50.1. * [libtextcat](https://github.com/goodsign/libtextcat) - Cgo binding for libtextcat C library. Guaranteed compatibility with version 2.2. * [MMSEGO](https://github.com/awsong/MMSEGO) - This is a GO implementation of [MMSEG](http://technology.chtsai.org/mmseg/) which a Chinese word splitting algorithm. * [paicehusk](https://github.com/Rookii/paicehusk) - Golang implementation of the Paice/Husk Stemming Algorithm * [porter](https://github.com/a2800276/porter) - This is a fairly straighforward port of Martin Porter's C implementation of the Porter stemming algorithm. * [snowball](https://github.com/goodsign/snowball) - Snowball stemmer port (cgo wrapper) for Go. Provides word stem extraction functionality [Snowball native](http://snowball.tartarus.org/). * [stemmer](https://github.com/dchest/stemmer) - Stemmer packages for Go programming language. Includes English and German stemmers. * [textcat](https://github.com/pebbe/textcat) - A Go package for n-gram based text categorization, with support for utf-8 and raw text ## Networking *Libraries for working with various layers of the network* * [dns](https://github.com/miekg/dns) - Go library for working with DNS * [gopacket](https://code.google.com/p/gopacket) - A Go library for packet processing with libpacp bindings * [gopcap](https://github.com/akrennmair/gopcap) - A Go wrapper for libpcap * [gosnmp](https://github.com/soniah/gosnmp) - Native Go library for performing SNMP actions * [gotcp](https://github.com/gansidui/gotcp) - A Go package for quickly writing tcp applications * [linkio](https://github.com/ian-kent/linkio) - Network link speed simulation for Reader/Writer interfaces * [portproxy](https://github.com/aybabtme/portproxy) - Simple TCP proxy which adds CORS support to API's which don't support it. * [tcp_server](https://github.com/firstrow/tcp_server) - A Go library for building tcp servers faster ## OpenGL *Libraries for using OpenGL in Go.* * [gl](https://github.com/go-gl/gl) - Go bindings for OpenGL. Requires an external dependency GLEW. * [glfw3](https://github.com/go-gl/glfw3) - Go bindings for GLFW 3. * [glow](https://github.com/go-gl/glow) - Go binding generator and bindings for OpenGL. * [mathgl](https://github.com/go-gl/mathgl) - Pure Go math package specialized for 3D math, with inspiration from GLM. ## 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/go-gorp/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. * [upper.io/db](https://github.com/upper/db) - Single interface for interacting with different data sources through the use of adapters that wrap mature database drivers. * [Xorm](https://github.com/go-xorm/xorm) - Simple and powerful ORM for Go. ## Package Management *Libraries for package and dependency management.* * [godep](https://github.com/tools/godep) - dependency tool for go, godep helps build packages reproducibly by fixing their dependencies. * [gom](https://github.com/mattn/gom) - Go Manager - bundle for go. * [goop](https://github.com/nitrous-io/goop) - A simple dependency manager for Go (golang), inspired by Bundler. * [gopm](https://github.com/gpmgo/gopm) - Go Package Manager * [gpm](https://github.com/pote/gpm) - Barebones dependency manager for Go. * [VenGO](https://github.com/DamnWidget/VenGO) - create and manage exportable isolated go virtual environments ## Science and Data Analysis *Libraries for scientific computing and data analyzing.* * [blas](https://github.com/ziutek/blas) - Implementation of BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) * [geom](https://github.com/skelterjohn/geom) - 2D geometry for golang * [gocomplex](https://code.google.com/p/gocomplex/) - A complex number library for the Go programming language. * [go-fn](https://code.google.com/p/go-fn/) - Mathematical functions written in Go language, that are not covered by math pkg * [gofrac](https://github.com/anschelsc/gofrac) - A (goinstallable) fractions library for go with support for basic arithmetic. * [go-gt](https://code.google.com/p/go-gt/) - Graph theory algorithms written in "Go" language * [go.matrix](https://github.com/skelterjohn/go.matrix) - linear algebra for go * [gostat](https://code.google.com/p/gostat/) - A statistics library for the go language * [goraph](https://github.com/gyuho/goraph) - A pure Go graph theory library(data structure, algorith visualization) * [mudlark-go](https://code.google.com/p/mudlark-go-pkgs/) - A collection of packages providing (hopefully) useful code for use in software using Google's Go programming language. * [plotinum](https://code.google.com/p/plotinum/) - Plotinum provides an API for building and drawing plots in Go. * [streamtools](https://github.com/nytlabs/streamtools) - general purpose, graphical tool for dealing with streams of data. * [vectormath](https://github.com/spate/vectormath) - Vectormath for Go, an adaptation of the scalar C functions from Sony's Vector Math library, as found in the Bullet-2.79 source code. ## Serialization *Libraries and tools for binary serialization* * [cbor](https://github.com/2tvenom/cbor) - Golang library for working with cbor binary format * [gogoprotobuf](https://github.com/gogo/protobuf) - Protocol Buffers for Go with Gadgets * [goprotobuf](https://github.com/golang/protobuf) - Go support, in the form of a library and protocol compiler plugin, for Google's protocol buffers. * [php_session_decoder](https://github.com/yvasiyarov/php_session_decoder) - GoLang library for working with PHP session format and PHP Serialize/Unserialize functions ## Template Engines *Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.* * [ace](https://github.com/yosssi/ace) - Ace is an HTML template engine for Go, inspired by Slim and Jade. Ace is a refinement of Gold. * [amber](https://github.com/eknkc/amber) - Amber is an elegant templating engine for Go Programming Language It is inspired from HAML and Jade. * [ego](https://github.com/benbjohnson/ego) - A lightweight templating language that lets you write templates in Go. Templates are translated into Go and compiled. * [kasia.go](https://github.com/ziutek/kasia.go) - Templating system for HTML and other text documents - go implementation. * [mustache](https://github.com/hoisie/mustache) - A Go implementation of the Mustache template language. * [pongo2](https://github.com/flosch/pongo2) - A Django-like template-engine for Go. * [Razor](https://github.com/sipin/gorazor) - Razor view engine for Golang. * [Soy](https://github.com/robfig/soy) - Closure templates (aka Soy templates) for Go, following the [official spec](https://developers.google.com/closure/templates/) ## Testing *Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.* * Testing Frameworks * [assert](https://github.com/bmizerany/assert) - Asserts to Go testing * [ginkgo](http://onsi.github.io/ginkgo/) - BDD Testing Framework for Go * [goblin](https://github.com/franela/goblin) - Mocha like testing framework fo Go * [gocheck](http://labix.org/gocheck) - A more advanced testing framework alternative to gotest. * [GoConvey](https://github.com/smartystreets/goconvey/) - BDD-style framework with web UI and live reload * [go-mutesting](https://github.com/zimmski/go-mutesting) - Mutation testing for Go source code * [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. * [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. * [Testify](https://github.com/stretchr/testify) - A sacred extension to the standard go testing package. * Mock * [counterfeiter](https://github.com/maxbrunsfeld/counterfeiter) - Tool for generating self-contained mock objects * [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 * [go-sqlmock](https://github.com/DATA-DOG/go-sqlmock) - Mock SQL driver for testing database interactions * Fuzzing and delta-debugging/reducing/shrinking * [gofuzz](https://github.com/google/gofuzz) - A library for populating go objects with random values * [gogenerate](https://github.com/arschles/gogenerate) - A Scalacheck-like library for Go * [Tavor](https://github.com/zimmski/tavor) - A generic fuzzing and delta-debugging framework ## Text Processing *Libraries for parsing and manipulating texts.* * Specific Formats * [blackfriday](https://github.com/russross/blackfriday) - Markdown processor in Go * [github_flavored_markdown](http://godoc.org/github.com/shurcooL/go/github_flavored_markdown) - GitHub Flavored Markdown renderer in Go. * [bluemonday](https://github.com/microcosm-cc/bluemonday) - HTML Sanitizer * [enca](https://github.com/endeveit/enca) - Minimal cgo bindings for [libenca](http://cihar.com/software/enca/). * [gographviz](https://code.google.com/p/gographviz) - Parses the Graphviz DOT language. * [go-humanize](https://github.com/dustin/go-humanize) - Formatters for time, numbers, and memory size to human readable format. * [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. * [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. * [GoQuery](https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery) - GoQuery brings a syntax and a set of features similar to jQuery to the Go language. * [goregen](https://github.com/zach-klippenstein/goregen) - A library for generating random strings from regular expressions. * [go-runewidth](https://github.com/mattn/go-runewidth) - Functions to get fixed width of the character or string. * [guesslanguage](https://github.com/endeveit/guesslanguage) - Functions to determine the natural language of a unicode text. * [slug](https://github.com/gosimple/slug) - URL-friendly slugify with multiple languages support. * [toml](https://github.com/BurntSushi/toml) - TOML configuration format (encoder/decoder with reflection). * Utility * [gotabulate](https://github.com/bndr/gotabulate) - Easily pretty-print your tabular data with Go. * [govalidator](https://github.com/asaskevich/govalidator) - package of string validators and sanitizers for Go lang. ## Third-party APIs *Libraries for accessing third party APIs.* * [aws-go](https://github.com/stripe/aws-go) - An incredibly experimental, automatically generated set of AWS clients in Go. * [facebook](https://github.com/huandu/facebook) - Go Library that supports the Facebook Graph API * [github](https://github.com/google/go-github) - Go library for accessing the GitHub API. * [goamz](https://github.com/mitchellh/goamz) - Popular fork of [goamz](https://launchpad.net/goamz) which adds some missing API calls to certain packages. * [GoMusicBrainz](https://github.com/michiwend/gomusicbrainz) - a Go MusicBrainz WS2 client library * [gostorm](https://github.com/jsgilmore/gostorm) - GoStorm is a Go library that implements the communications protocol required to write Storm spouts and Bolts in Go that communicate with the Storm shells. * [hipchat](https://github.com/andybons/hipchat) - This project implements a golang client library for the Hipchat API. * [hipchat (xmpp)](https://github.com/daneharrigan/hipchat) - A golang package to communicate with HipChat over XMPP. * [mixpanel](https://github.com/dukex/mixpanel) - Mixpanel is a library for tracking events and sending Mixpanel profile updates to Mixpanel from your go applications. * [rrdaclient](https://github.com/Omie/rrdaclient) - Go Library to access statdns.com API, which is in turn RRDA API. DNS Queries over HTTP. * [shopify](https://github.com/rapito/go-shopify) - Go Library to make CRUD request to the Shopify API. * [smite](https://github.com/sergiotapia/smitego) - Go package to wraps access to the Smite game API. * [snapchat](https://github.com/jamieomatthews/gosnap) - Go wrapper for the snapchat API * [spotify](https://github.com/rapito/go-spotify) - Go Library to access Spotify WEB API. ## Utilities *General utilities and tools to make your life easier.* * [cli](https://github.com/codegangsta/cli) - A small package for building command line apps in Go. * [cli-init](https://github.com/tcnksm/cli-init) - The easy way to start building Golang command-line application. * [coop](https://github.com/rakyll/coop) - Cheat sheet for some of the common concurrent flows in Go. * [delve](https://github.com/derekparker/delve) - Go debugger. * [fastlz](https://github.com/fromYukki/fastlz) - Wrap over [FastLz](http://fastlz.org/) (free, open-source, portable real-time compression library) for GoLang. * [godropbox](https://github.com/dropbox/godropbox) - Common libraries for writing Go services/applications from Dropbox. * [gopencils](https://github.com/bndr/gopencils) - Small and simple package to easily consume REST APIs. * [goplaceholder](https://github.com/michiwend/goplaceholder) - a small golang lib to generate placeholder images * [goreq](https://github.com/franela/goreq) - Minimal and simple request library for Go language. * [gorequest](https://github.com/parnurzeal/gorequest) - Simplified HTTP client with rich features for Go. * [gotenv](https://github.com/subosito/gotenv) - Load environment variables from `.env` or any `io.Reader` in Go * [go-debug](https://github.com/visionmedia/go-debug) - Conditional debug logging for Golang libraries & applications * [go-dry](https://github.com/ungerik/go-dry) - DRY (don't repeat yourself) package for Go. * [go-underscore](https://github.com/tobyhede/go-underscore) - A useful collection of helpfully functional Go collection utilities. * [lrserver](https://github.com/jaschaephraim/lrserver) - LiveReload server for Go * [mp](https://github.com/sanbornm/mp) - A simple cli email parser. It currently takes stdin and outputs JSON. * [ngrok](https://github.com/inconshreveable/ngrok) - Introspected tunnels to localhost. * [okrun](https://github.com/xta/okrun) - go run error steamroller * [peco](https://github.com/peco/peco) - Simplistic interactive filtering tool * [profile](https://github.com/davecheney/profile) - Simple profiling support package for Go * [request](https://github.com/mozillazg/request) - Go HTTP Requests for Humans™. * [spinner](https://github.com/briandowns/spinner) - Go package to easily provide a terminal spinner with options. * [sqlx](https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx) - provides a set of extensions on top of the excellent built-in database/sql package * [xlsx](https://github.com/tealeg/xlsx) - Library to simplify reading the XML format used by recent version of Microsoft Excel in Go programs. ## Version Control *Libraries for version control.* * [git2go](https://github.com/libgit2/git2go) - Go bindings for libgit2. * [go-vcs](https://github.com/sourcegraph/go-vcs) - manipulate and inspect VCS repositories in Go. * [hgo](https://github.com/beyang/hgo) - Hgo is a collection of Go packages providing read-access to local Mercurial repositories. ## Video *Libraries for manipulating video.* * [aac/h264](https://github.com/go-av/codec) - Golang aac/h264 encoder and decoder. * [gmf](https://github.com/3d0c/gmf) - Go bindings for FFmpeg av\* libraries. * [gst](https://github.com/ziutek/gst) - Go bindings for GStreamer. ## Web Frameworks *Full stack web frameworks.* * [Beego](https://github.com/astaxie/beego) - beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework for the Go programming language. * [Bone](https://github.com/squiidz/bone) - Lightning Fast HTTP Multiplexer. * [Gin](https://github.com/gin-gonic/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. * [Goat](https://github.com/bahlo/goat) - A minimalistic REST API server in Go * [goose](https://github.com/ian-kent/goose) - Server Sent Events in Go * [gocraft/web](https://github.com/gocraft/web) - A mux and middleware package in Go. * [Goji](https://github.com/zenazn/goji) - Goji is a minimalistic web framework for Golang that's high in antioxidants. * [Gondola](https://github.com/rainycape/gondola) - The web framework for writing faster sites, faster * [Gorilla](https://github.com/gorilla/) - Gorilla is a web toolkit for the Go programming language. * [go-relax](https://github.com/codehack/go-relax) - A framework of pluggable components to build RESTful API's * [go-rest](https://github.com/ungerik/go-rest) - A small and evil REST 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. * [Macaron](https://github.com/Unknwon/macaron) - Macaron is a high productive and modular design web framework in Go. * [mango](https://github.com/paulbellamy/mango) - Mango is a modular web-application framework for Go, inspired by Rack, and PEP333. * [Martini](https://github.com/go-martini/martini) - Martini is a powerful package for quickly writing modular web applications/services in Golang. * [medeina](https://github.com/imdario/medeina) - Medeina is a HTTP routing tree based on HttpRouter, inspired by Roda and Cuba. * [neo](https://github.com/ivpusic/neo) - Neo is minimal and fast Go Web Framework with extremely simple API. * [pat](https://github.com/bmizerany/pat) - Sinatra style pattern muxer for Go’s net/http library, by the author of Sinatra. * [Resoursea](https://github.com/resoursea/api) - A REST framework for quickly writing resource based services. * [Revel](https://github.com/revel/revel) - A high-productivity web framework for the Go language. * [sawsij](http://sawsij.com/) - lightweight, open-source web framework for building high-performance, data-driven web applications. * [tigertonic](https://github.com/rcrowley/go-tigertonic) - A Go framework for building JSON web services inspired by Dropwizard * [traffic](https://github.com/pilu/traffic) - Sinatra inspired regexp/pattern mux and web framework for Go. * [web.go](https://github.com/hoisie/web) - A simple framework to write webapps in Go. * [zeus](https://github.com/daryl/zeus) - A very simple and fast HTTP router for Go. ### Middlewares *Libraries for creating HTTP middlewares.* * [alice](https://github.com/justinas/alice) - Painless middleware chaining for Go. * [go-wrap](https://github.com/go-on/wrap) - Small middlewares package for net/http. * [interpose](https://github.com/carbocation/interpose) - Minimalist net/http middleware for golang * [muxchain](https://github.com/stephens2424/muxchain) - Lightweight middleware for net/http. * [negroni](https://github.com/codegangsta/negroni) - Idiomatic HTTP middleware for Golang. * [render](https://github.com/unrolled/render) - Go package for easily rendering JSON, XML, and HTML template responses. # Tools Go software and plugins. ## Code Analysis * [doc](http://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/rspace.cmd/doc) - Go documentation tool that produces an alternative doc format. * [errcheck](https://github.com/kisielk/errcheck) - Errcheck is a program for checking for unchecked errors in Go programs. * [gcvis](https://github.com/davecheney/gcvis) - Visualise Go program GC trace data in real time. * [goast-viewer](https://github.com/yuroyoro/goast-viewer) - Web based Golang AST visualizer. * [GoCover.io](http://gocover.io/) - GoCover.io offers the code coverage of any golang package as a service. * [goimports](http://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/go.tools/cmd/goimports) - Tool to fix (add, remove) your Go imports automatically. * [GoLint](https://github.com/golang/lint) - Golint is a linter for Go source code. * [Golint online](http://go-lint.appspot.com/) - Lints online Go source files on GitHub, Bitbucket and Google Project Hosting using the golint package. * [validate](https://github.com/mccoyst/validate) - Automatically validates struct fields with tags. ## Editor Plugins * [go-lang-idea-plugin](https://github.com/go-lang-plugin-org/go-lang-idea-plugin) Go plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. * [gocode](https://github.com/nsf/gocode) - An autocompletion daemon for the Go programming language * [GoSublime](https://github.com/DisposaBoy/GoSublime) - A Golang plugin collection for the text editor SublimeText 2 providing code completion and other IDE-like features. * [velour](https://github.com/velour/velour) - An IRC client for the acme editor. * [vim-compiler-go](https://github.com/rjohnsondev/vim-compiler-go) - A Vim plugin to highlight syntax errors on save. * [vim-go](https://github.com/fatih/vim-go) - Go development plugin for Vim. * [Watch](https://github.com/eaburns/Watch) - Runs a command in an acme win on file changes. ## Software Packages Software written in Go. ### DevOps Tools * [aptly](https://github.com/smira/aptly) - aptly is a Debian repository management tool * [Boom](https://github.com/rakyll/boom) - Boom is a tiny program that sends some load to a web application. * [dogo](https://github.com/liudng/dogo) - Monitoring changes in the source file and automatically compile and run (restart). * [EasySSH](https://github.com/hypersleep/easyssh) - Golang package for easy remote execution through SSH and SCP downloading. * [gaudi](http://gaudi.io/) - Gaudi automates the setup of isolated and decoupled dev environments. * [gobrew](https://github.com/cryptojuice/gobrew) - gobrew lets you easily switch between multiple versions of go. * [GoBuild](http://gobuild.io/) - Online compile Go projects to Windows, Linux and MacOSX. * [godbg](https://github.com/sirnewton01/godbg) - Web-based gdb front-end application. * [Gogs](http://gogs.io/) - A Self Hosted Git Service in the Go Programming Language. * [gonative](https://github.com/inconshreveable/gonative) - Tool which creates a build of Go that can cross compile to all platforms while still using the Cgo-enabled versions of the stdlib packages. * [go-selfupdate](https://github.com/sanbornm/go-selfupdate) - Enable your Go applications to self update. * [gox](https://github.com/mitchellh/gox) - A dead simple, no frills Go cross compile tool. * [goxc](https://github.com/laher/goxc) - build tool for Go, with a focus on cross-compiling and packaging. * [GVM](https://github.com/moovweb/gvm) - GVM provides an interface to manage Go versions. * [hk](https://github.com/heroku/hk) - Heroku command-line interface in Go. * [Mora](https://github.com/emicklei/mora) - REST server for accessing MongoDB documents and meta data. * [ostent](https://github.com/ostrost/ostent) - collects and displays system metrics and optionally relays to Graphite and/or InfluxDB * [Packer](https://github.com/mitchellh/packer) - Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. * [Rodent](https://github.com/alouche/rodent) - Rodent helps you manage Go versions, projects and track dependencies. * [Wide](https://wide.b3log.org) - A Web-based IDE for Teams using Golang. ### Other Software * [Circuit](https://github.com/gocircuit/circuit) - Circuit is a programmable platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and/or Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), for management, discovery, synchronization and orchestration of services and hosts comprising cloud applications. * [confd](https://github.com/kelseyhightower/confd) - Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul. * [Docker](http://www.docker.com/) - An open platform for distributed applications for developers and sysadmins. * [etcd](https://github.com/coreos/etcd) - A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery. * [fleet](https://github.com/coreos/fleet) - A Distributed init System. * [gocc](https://code.google.com/p/gocc) - Gocc is a compiler kit for Go written in Go. * [Gor] (https://github.com/buger/gor) - Http traffic replication tool, for replaying traffic from production to stage/dev environments in real-time. * [heka] (https://github.com/mozilla-services/heka) - universal tool for data processing from Mozilla. Large collection of built-in plugins. Extendable via Go and Lua plugin API. * [hugo](http://gohugo.io/) - A Fast and Modern Static Website Engine * [Juju](https://juju.ubuntu.com/) - Cloud-agnostic service deployment and orchestration - supports EC2, Azure, Openstack, MAAS and more. * [limetext](http://limetext.org/) Lime Text is a powerful and elegant text editor primarily developed in Go that aims to be a Free and open-source software successor to Sublime Text. * [nsq](http://nsq.io/) - A realtime distributed messaging platform * [orange-cat](https://github.com/noraesae/orange-cat) - A Markdown previewer written in Go. * [peg](https://github.com/pointlander/peg) - Peg, Parsing Expression Grammar, is an implementation of a Packrat parser generator. * [Postman](https://github.com/zachlatta/postman) - Command-line utility for batch-sending email. * [Seaweed File System](https://github.com/chrislusf/weed-fs) - Fast, Simple and Scalable Distributed File System with O(1) disk seek. * [syncthing](http://www.syncthing.net/) - An open, decentralized file synchronization tool and protocol. * [Tenyks](https://github.com/kyleterry/tenyks) - Service oriented IRC bot using Redis and JSON for messaging. * [tsuru](http://www.tsuru.io/) - An extensible and open source Platform as a Service software. * [websysd](http://github.com/ian-kent/websysd) - Web based process manager (like Marathon or Upstart) # Resources Where to discover new Go libraries. ## Benchmarks * [autobench](https://github.com/davecheney/autobench) - Framework to compare the performance between different Go versions. * [gocostmodel](https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/gocostmodel) - Benchmarks of common basic operations for the Go language. * [go-http-routing-benchmark](https://github.com/julienschmidt/go-http-routing-benchmark) - Go HTTP request router benchmark and comparison. * [golang-micro-benchmarks](https://github.com/amscanne/golang-micro-benchmarks) - Tiny collection of Go micro benchmarks. The intent is to compare some language features to others. * [golang-sql-benchmark](https://github.com/tyler-smith/golang-sql-benchmark) - A collection of benchmarks for popular Go database/SQL utilities. * [go_serialization_benchmarks](https://github.com/alecthomas/go_serialization_benchmarks) - Benchmarks of Go serialization methods. * [go-type-assertion-benchmark](https://github.com/hgfischer/go-type-assertion-benchmark) - Naive performance test of two ways to do type assertion in Go. * [kvbench](https://github.com/jimrobinson/kvbench) - Key/Value database benchmark. * [speedtest-resize](https://github.com/fawick/speedtest-resize) - Compare various Image resize algorithms for the Go language. ## Conferences * [dotGo](http://www.dotgo.io) * [GopherCon](http://www.gophercon.com/) * [GopherCon India](http://www.gophercon.in/) ## E-Books * [A Go Developer's Notebook](https://leanpub.com/GoNotebook/read) * [An Introduction to Programming in Go](http://www.golang-book.com/) * [Build Web Application with Golang](http://astaxie.gitbooks.io/build-web-application-with-golang/) * [Building Web Apps With Go](http://codegangsta.gitbooks.io/building-web-apps-with-go/) * [Go Bootcamp](http://golangbootcamp.com) * [Learning Go](http://www.miek.nl/downloads/Go/Learning-Go-latest.pdf) * [Network Programming With Go](http://jan.newmarch.name/go/) ## Twitter * [@golang](https://twitter.com/golang) * [@golang_news](https://twitter.com/golang_news) * [@golangweekly](https://twitter.com/golangweekly) ## Websites * [awesome-awesomeness](https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness) - List of other amazingly awesome lists. * [Awesome Remote Job](https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job) - A curated list of awesome remote jobs. A lot of them is looking for Go hackers. * [Flipboard - Go Magazine](https://flipboard.com/section/the-golang-magazine-bVP7nS) - A collection of Go articles and tutorials. * [Go Blog](http://blog.golang.org) - The official Go blog * [godoc.org](http://godoc.org/) - Documentation for open source Go packages. * [golang-graphics](https://github.com/mholt/golang-graphics) - A collection of Go images, graphics, and art * [golang-nuts](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/golang-nuts) - Go mailing list * [Go Projects](https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/Projects) - List of projects on the Go community wiki * [gowalker.org](https://gowalker.org) - Go Project API documentation. * [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. ## Windows * [go-ole](https://github.com/mattn/go-ole) - Win32 OLE implementation for golang ### Tutorials * [A Tour of Go](http://tour.golang.org/) - Interactive tour of Go * [Go By Example](https://gobyexample.com/) - A hands-on introduction to Go using annotated example programs * [Working with Go](https://github.com/mkaz/working-with-go) - An intro to go for experienced programmers