Awesome Go

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

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Contents

• Awesome Go

  • Audio & Music
  • Authentication & OAuth
  • CUI
  • Database
  • Database Drivers
  • Date & Time
  • Email
  • Embeddable Scripting Languages
  • Forms
  • Game Development
  • Generation & Generics
  • GUI
  • Images
  • Logging
  • Machine Learning
  • Messaging
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Networking
  • OpenGL
  • ORM
  • Package Management
  • Science and Data Analysis
  • Serialization
  • Template Engines
  • Testing
  • Text Processing
  • Third-party APIs
  • Utilities
  • Video
  • Web Frameworks
    • Middlewares
  • Windows

• Tools

  • Code Analysis
  • Editor Plugins
  • Software Packages
    • DevOps Tools
    • Other Software

• Resources

  • Benchmarks
  • Conferences
  • E-Books
  • Twitter
  • Websites
    • Tutorials

Audio/Music

Libraries for manipulating audio.

• flac - A native Go FLAC decoder.
• go-sox - libsox bindings for go.
• PortAudio - Go bindings for the PortAudio audio I/O library.
• portmidi - Go bindings for PortMidi.
• vorbis - A "native" Go Vorbis decoder (uses CGO, but has no dependencies).

Authentication & OAuth

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

• Go-AWS-Auth - AWS (Amazon Web Services) request signing library.
• go.auth - Authentication API for Go web applications.
• httpauth - HTTP Authentication middleware.
• jwt-go - Golang implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT).
• oauth2 - Successor of goauth2. Generic OAuth 2.0 package that comes with JWT, Google APIs, Compute Engine and App Engine support.
• osin - Golang OAuth2 server library.

CUI

Libraries for building CUI Applications

• chalk - Intuitive package for prettifying terminal/console output.
• color - Versatile package for colored terminal output.
• go-colortext - Go library for color output in terminals.
• termbox-go - Termbox is a library for creating cross-platform text-based interfaces.

Database

Databases implemented in Go.

• bolt - A low-level key/value database for Go.
• diskv - A home-grown disk-backed key-value store.
• go-cache - An in-memory key:value store/cache (similar to Memcached) library for Go, suitable for single-machine applications.
• goleveldb - An implementation of the LevelDB key/value database in the Go.
• groupcache - Groupcache is a caching and cache-filling library, intended as a replacement for memcached in many cases.
• influxdb - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics
• ledisdb - Ledisdb is a high performance NoSQL like Redis based on LevelDB.
• skydb.io - Sky is an open source database used for flexible, high performance analysis of behavioral data.
• tiedot - Your NoSQL database powered by Golang.

Database Drivers

Libraries for connecting and operating databases. (see Testing for mock drivers)

• Relational Databases

  • go-adodb - Microsoft ActiveX Object DataBase driver for go that using exp/sql.
  • go-mssqldb - Microsoft MSSQL driver prototype in go language.
  • go-oci8 - Oracle driver for go that using database/sql.
  • go-pgsql - A PostgreSQL client package for the Go Programming Language.
  • go-sql-driver/mysql - MySQL driver for Go.
  • go-sqlite3 - SQLite3 driver for go that using database/sql.
  • pq - Pure Go Postgres driver for database/sql.

• NoSQL Databases

  • cayley - A graph database with support for multiple backends.
  • go-couchbase - Couchbase client in Go
  • gorethink - Go language driver for RethinkDB
  • gomemcache - memcache client library for the Go programming language.
  • 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.
  • neo4j - Neo4j Rest API Bindings for Golang
  • Neo4j-GO - Neo4j REST Client in golang.
  • redigo - Redigo is a Go client for the Redis database.
  • redis - A simple, powerful Redis client for Go.

Date & Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• now - Now is a time toolkit for golang.

Email

Libraries that implement email creation and sending

• email - A robust and flexible email library for Go.
• Go-MailHog - Catches mail and serves it through a dream. Inspired by MailCatcher, easier to install.
• gomail - Gomail provides a very simple API to send emails. It supports attachments, multipart emails and encoding of non-ASCII characters.

Embeddable Scripting Languages

Embedding other languages inside your go code

• agora - Dynamically typed, embeddable programming language in Go
• anko - Scriptable interpreter written in Go
• gisp - Simple LISP in Go
• golua - Go bindings for Lua C API
• go-python - naive go bindings to the CPython C-API
• otto - A JavaScript interpreter written in Go
• v8-go - V8 JavaScript engine bindings for Go

Forms

Libraries for working with forms.

• binding - Binds form and JSON data from net/http Request to struct.
• nosurf - A CSRF protection middleware for Go.

Game Development

Awesome game development libraries.

• GarageEngine - 2d game engine written in Go working on OpenGL.
• glop - Glop (Game Library Of Power) is a fairly simple cross-platform game library.
• go3d - A performance oriented 2D/3D math package for Go
• go-astar - Go implementation of the A* path finding algorithm

Generation & Generics

Tools to enhance the language with features like generics via code generation

• gen - Code generation tool for ‘generics’-like functionality.
• go-linq - .NET LINQ-like query methods for Go.
• pkgreflect - A Go preprocessor for package scoped reflection.

GUI

Libraries for building GUI Applications

• go-gtk - Go bindings for GTK
• gotk3 - Go bindings for GTK3.
• go-qml - QML support for the Go language
• ui - Platform-native GUI library for Go.

Images

Libraries for manipulating images.

• gift - Package of image processing filters.
• go-cairo - Go binding for the cairo graphics library.
• go-nude - Nudity detection with Go.
• go-opencv - Go bindings for OpenCV.
• go-webcolors - Port of webcolors library from Python to Go.
• img - A selection of image manipulation tools.
• imagick - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API.
• imaging - Simple Go image processing package.
• resize - Image resizing for the Go with common interpolation methods.
• rez - Image resizing, functionality similar to resize
• svgo - Go Language Library for SVG generation.
• go-gd - Go binding for GD library

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with log files.

• glog - Leveled execution logs for Go.
• go-log - Log lib supports level and multi handlers.
• logrus - Structured, pluggable logging for Go.
• seelog - logging functionality with flexible dispatching, filtering, and formatting.
• stdlog - Stdlog is an object-oriented library providing leveled logging. It is very useful for cron jobs.

Machine Learning

Libraries for Machine Learning.

• bayesian - Naive Bayesian Classification for Golang.
• CloudForest - Fast, flexible, multi-threaded ensembles of decision trees for machine learning in pure Go.
• gobrain - Neural Networks written in go
• go-fann - Go bindings for Fast Artificial Neural Networks(FANN) library.
• go-galib - Genetic Algorithms library written in Go / golang
• golinear - liblinear bindings for Go
• GoLearn - General Machine Learning library for Go.
• go-pr - Pattern recognition package in Go lang.
• goRecommend - Recommendation Algorithms library written in Go.
• libsvm - libsvm golang version derived work based on LIBSVM 3.14.
• mlgo - This project aims to provide minimalistic machine learning algorithms in Go.
• neural-go - A multilayer perceptron network implemented in Go, with training via backpropagation.
• probab - Probability distribution functions. Bayesian inference. Written in pure Go.
• shield - Bayesian text classifier with flexible tokenizers and storage backends for Go

Messaging

Libraries that implement messaging systems

• dbus - Native Go bindings for D-Bus.
• go-nsq - the official Go package for NSQ
• gopush-cluster - gopush-cluster is a go push server cluster.
• NATS - A lightweight and highly performant publish-subscribe and distributed queueing messaging system.
• Uniqush-Push - A redis backed unified push service for server-side notifications to mobile devices.

Natural Language Processing

Libraries for working with human languages.

• go-eco - Similarity, dissimilarity and distance matrices; diversity, equitability and inequality measures; species richness estimators; coenocline models.
• golibstemmer - Go bindings for the snowball libstemmer library including porter 2
• go-nlp - Utilities for working with discrete probability distributions and other tools useful for doing NLP work.
• go-porterstemmer - A native Go clean room implementation of the Porter Stemming algorithm.
• go-stem - Implementation of the porter stemming algorithm.
• gounidecode - Unicode transliterator (also known as unidecode) for Go
• icu - Cgo binding for icu4c C library detection and conversion functions. Guaranteed compatibility with version 50.1.
• libtextcat - Cgo binding for libtextcat C library. Guaranteed compatibility with version 2.2.
• MMSEGO - This is a GO implementation of MMSEG which a Chinese word splitting algorithm.
• paicehusk - Golang implementation of the Paice/Husk Stemming Algorithm
• porter - This is a fairly straighforward port of Martin Porter's C implementation of the Porter stemming algorithm.
• snowball - Snowball stemmer port (cgo wrapper) for Go. Provides word stem extraction functionality Snowball native.
• stemmer - Stemmer packages for Go programming language. Includes English and German stemmers.
• 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 - Go library for working with DNS
• gopacket - A Go library for packet processing with libpacp bindings
• gopcap - A Go wrapper for libpcap
• gosnmp - Native Go library for performing SNMP actions
• ib - Go infiniband libraries for linux machines.

OpenGL

Libraries for using OpenGL in Go.

• gl - Go bindings for OpenGL. Requires an external dependency GLEW.
• glfw3 - Go bindings for GLFW 3.
• glow - Go binding generator and bindings for OpenGL.
• mathgl - Pure Go math package specialized for 3D math, with inspiration from GLM.

ORM

Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques.

• BeeDB - go ORM,support database/sql interface，pq/mysql/sqlite.
• GORM - The fantastic ORM library for Golang, aims to be developer friendly.
• gorp - Go Relational Persistence, ORM-ish library for Go.
• hood - Database agnostic ORM for Go.
• QBS - Stands for Query By Struct. A Go ORM.
• upper.io/db - Single interface for interacting with different data sources through the use of adapters that wrap mature database drivers.
• Xorm - Simple and powerful ORM for Go.

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management.

• godep - dependency tool for go, godep helps build packages reproducibly by fixing their dependencies.
• gom - Go Manager - bundle for go.
• goop - A simple dependency manager for Go (golang), inspired by Bundler.
• gpm - Barebones dependency manager for Go.

Science and Data Analysis

Libraries for scientific computing and data analyzing.

• blas - Implementation of BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms)
• geom - 2D geometry for golang
• gocomplex - A complex number library for the Go programming language.
• go-fn - Mathematical functions written in Go language, that are not covered by math pkg
• gofrac - A (goinstallable) fractions library for go with support for basic arithmetic.
• go-gt - Graph theory algorithms written in "Go" language
• go.matrix - linear algebra for go
• gostat - A statistics library for the go language
• goraph - A pure Go graph theory library(data structure, algorith visualization)
• mudlark-go - A collection of packages providing (hopefully) useful code for use in software using Google's Go programming language.
• plotinum - Plotinum provides an API for building and drawing plots in Go.
• streamtools - general purpose, graphical tool for dealing with streams of data.
• 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

• gogoprotobuf - Protocol Buffers for Go with Gadgets
• goprotobuf - Go support, in the form of a library and protocol compiler plugin, for Google's protocol buffers.

Template Engines

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

• ace - Ace is an HTML template engine for Go, inspired by Slim and Jade. Ace is a refinement of Gold.
• amber - Amber is an elegant templating engine for Go Programming Language It is inspired from HAML and Jade.
• kasia.go - Templating system for HTML and other text documents - go implementation.
• mustache - A Go implementation of the Mustache template language.
• pongo2 - A Django-like template-engine for Go.
• Razor - Razor view engine for Golang.
• Soy - Closure templates (aka Soy templates) for Go, following the official spec

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• Testing Frameworks

  • assert - Asserts to Go testing
  • ginkgo - BDD Testing Framework for Go
  • goblin - Mocha like testing framework fo Go
  • gocheck - A more advanced testing framework alternative to gotest.
  • GoConvey - BDD-style framework with web UI and live reload
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Testify - A sacred extension to the standard go testing package.

• Mock

  • counterfeiter - Tool for generating self-contained mock objects
  • gomock - Mocking framework for the Go programming language.
  • mockhttp.go - Mock object for Go http.ResponseWriter
  • go-sqlmock - Mock SQL driver for testing database transactions

Text Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating texts.

• Specific Formats
  • blackfriday - Markdown processor in Go
    • github_flavored_markdown - GitHub Flavored Markdown renderer in Go.
  • bluemonday - HTML Sanitizer
  • gocc - Gocc is a compiler kit for Go written in Go.
  • gographviz - Parses the Graphviz DOT language.
  • go-humanize - Formatters for time, numbers, and memory size to human readable format.
  • go-pkg-rss - This package reads RSS and Atom feeds and provides a caching mechanism that adheres to the feed specs.
  • 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 - GoQuery brings a syntax and a set of features similar to jQuery to the Go language.
  • go-runewidth - Functions to get fixed width of the character or string.
  • peg - Peg, Parsing Expression Grammar, is an implementation of a Packrat parser generator.
  • slug - URL-friendly slugify with multiple languages support.
  • toml - TOML configuration format (encoder/decoder with reflection).
  • yaml - Implements a YAML 1.2 parser in Go.
• Utility
  • govalidator - package of string validators and sanitizers for Go lang.

Third-party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party APIs.

• facebook - Go Library that supports the Facebook Graph API
• github - Go library for accessing the GitHub API.
• hipchat - This project implements a golang client library for the Hipchat API.
• hipchat (xmpp) - A golang package to communicate with HipChat over XMPP.
• mixpanel - Mixpanel is a library for tracking events and sending Mixpanel profile updates to Mixpanel from your go applications.
• smite - Go package to wraps access to the Smite game API.
• 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.

Utilities

General utilities and tools to make your life easier.

• cli - A small package for building command line apps in Go.
• cli-init - The easy way to start building Golang command-line application.
• coop - Cheat sheet for some of the common concurrent flows in Go.
• goreq - Minimal and simple request library for Go language.
• gorequest - Simplified HTTP client with rich features for Go.
• gopencils - Small and simple package to easily consume REST APIs.
• go-dry - DRY (don't repeat yourself) package for Go.
• lrserver - LiveReload server for Go
• mp - A simple cli email parser. It currently takes stdin and outputs JSON.

Video

Libraries for manipulating video.

• aac/h264 - Golang aac/h264 encoder and decoder.
• gmf - Go bindings for FFmpeg av* libraries.
• gst - Go bindings for GStreamer.

Web Frameworks

Full stack web frameworks.

• Beego - beego is an open-source, high-performance web framework 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.
• Goat - A minimalistic REST API server in Go
• gocraft/web - A mux and middleware package in Go.
• Goji - Goji is a minimalistic web framework for Golang that's high in antioxidants.
• Gorilla - Gorilla is a web toolkit for the Go programming language.
• go-relax - A framework of pluggable components to build RESTful API's
• go-rest - A small and evil REST framework for Go
• httprouter - A high performance router. Use this and the standard http handlers to form a very high performance web framework.
• mango - Mango is a modular web-application framework for Go, inspired by Rack, and PEP333.
• Martini - Martini is a powerful package for quickly writing modular web applications/services in Golang.
• 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.
• tigertonic - A Go framework for building JSON web services inspired by Dropwizard
• traffic - Sinatra inspired regexp/pattern mux and web framework for Go.
• web.go - A simple framework to write webapps in Go.

Middlewares

Libraries for creating HTTP middlewares.

• alice - Painless middleware chaining for Go.
• go-wrap - Small middlewares package for net/http.
• interpose - Minimalist net/http middleware for golang
• muxchain - Lightweight middleware for net/http.
• negroni - Idiomatic HTTP middleware for Golang.
• render - Go package for easily rendering JSON, XML, and HTML template responses.

Tools

Go software and plugins.

Code Analysis

• doc - Go documentation tool that produces an alternative doc format.
• errcheck - Errcheck is a program for checking for unchecked errors in Go programs.
• goast-viewer - Web based Golang AST visualizer.
• GoCover.io - GoCover.io offers the code coverage of any golang package as a service.
• goimports - Tool to fix (add, remove) your Go imports automatically.
• GoLint - Golint is a linter for Go source code.
• Golint online - Lints online Go source files on GitHub, Bitbucket and Google Project Hosting using the golint package.
• validate - Automatically validates struct fields with tags.

Editor Plugins

• go-lang-idea-plugin Go plugin for IntelliJ IDEA.
• gocode - An autocompletion daemon for the Go programming language
• GoSublime - A Golang plugin collection for the text editor SublimeText 2 providing code completion and other IDE-like features.
• velour - An IRC client for the acme editor.
• vim-compiler-go - A Vim plugin to highlight syntax errors on save.
• vim-go - Go development plugin for Vim.
• Watch - Runs a command in an acme win on file changes.

Software Packages

Software written in Go.

DevOps Tools

• aptly - aptly is a Debian repository management tool
• Boom - Boom is a tiny program that sends some load to a web application.
• gaudi - Gaudi automates the setup of isolated and decoupled dev environments.
• gobrew - gobrew lets you easily switch between multiple versions of go.
• GoBuild - Online compile Go projects to Windows, Linux and MacOSX.
• godbg - Web-based gdb front-end application.
• Gogs - A Self Hosted Git Service in the Go Programming Language.
• 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 - Enable your Go applications to self update.
• gox - A dead simple, no frills Go cross compile tool.
• goxc - build tool for Go, with a focus on cross-compiling and packaging.
• GVM - GVM provides an interface to manage Go versions.
• hk - Heroku command-line interface in Go.
• Mora - REST server for accessing MongoDB documents and meta data.
• Rodent - Rodent helps you manage Go versions, projects and track dependencies.

Other Software

• 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 - Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul.
• Docker - An open platform for distributed applications for developers and sysadmins.
• etcd - A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery.
• fleet - A Distributed init System.
• Juju - Cloud-agnostic service deployment and orchestraton - supports EC2, Azure, Openstack, MAAS and more.
• nsq - A realtime distributed messaging platform
• Postman - Command-line utility for batch-sending email.
• syncthing - An open, decentralized file synchronization tool and protocol.
• tsuru - An extensible and open source Platform as a Service software.

Resources

Where to discover new Go libraries.

Benchmarks

• autobench - Framework to compare the performance between different Go versions.
• go-http-routing-benchmark - Go HTTP request router benchmark and comparison.
• go_serialization_benchmarks - Benchmarks of Go serialization methods.
• go-type-assertion-benchmark - Naive performance test of two ways to do type assertion in Go.
• kvbench - Key/Value database benchmark.
• speedtest-resize - Compare various Image resize algorithms for the Go language.

Conferences

• dotGo
• GopherCon
• GopherCon India

E-Books

• build-applications-web
• golang-book
• golangbootcamp
• learning-go
• network-programming

Twitter

• @golang
• @golang_news
• @golangweekly

Websites

• awesome-awesomeness - List of other amazingly awesome lists.
• Flipboard - Go Magazine - A collection of Go articles and tutorials.
• godoc.org - Documentation for open source Go packages.
• golang-nuts - Go mailing list
• Go Projects - List of projects on the Go community wiki
• r/Golang - News about Go.
• Trending Go repositories on GitHub today - Good place to find new Go libraries.
• go generate - A proposed code generation syntax from Rob Pike.

Windows

• go-ole - Win32 OLE implementation for golang

Tutorials

• A Tour of Go - Interactive tour of Go
• Go By Example - A hands-on introduction to Go using annotated example programs
• Working with Go - An intro to go for experienced programmers