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
  • CSS Preprocessors
  • CUI
  • Database
  • Database Drivers
  • Date & Time
  • Distributed Systems
  • 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.

CSS Preprocessors

Libraries for preprocessing CSS files

• gcss - Pure Go CSS Preprocessor.

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

Generic data structures and algorithms for databases in Go.

• bitset - Go package implementing bitsets.
• bloom - Bloom filters implemented in Go.
• encoding - Integer Compression Libraries for Go.

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.
• tiedot - Your NoSQL database powered by Golang.

Database tools.

• vitess - vitess provides servers and tools which facilitate scaling of MySQL databases for large scale web services.

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.

Distributed Systems

Packages that help with building Distributed Systems.

• goraft - A Go implementation of the Raft distributed consensus protocol.
• raft - Golang implementation of the Raft consensus protocol, by HashiCorp.

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.

• bind - Bind form data to any Go values
• 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

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

• cbor - Golang library for working with cbor binary format
• 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.
• 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 - 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 interactions

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
  • 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.
  • slug - URL-friendly slugify with multiple languages support.
  • toml - TOML configuration format (encoder/decoder with reflection).
• Utility
  • gotabulate - Easily pretty-print your tabular data with Go.
  • 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.
• 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 - 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.
• rrdaclient - Go Library to access statdns.com API, which is in turn RRDA API. DNS Queries over HTTP.
• smite - Go package to wraps access to the Smite game API.
• snapchat - Go wrapper for the snapchat API

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.
• godropbox - Common libraries for writing Go services/applications from Dropbox.
• gopencils - Small and simple package to easily consume REST APIs.
• goreq - Minimal and simple request library for Go language.
• gorequest - Simplified HTTP client with rich features for Go.
• gotenv - Load environment variables from .env or any io.Reader in Go
• go-debug - Conditional debug logging for Golang libraries & applications
• go-dry - DRY (don't repeat yourself) package for Go.
• go-underscore - A useful collection of helpfully functional Go collection utilities.
• lrserver - LiveReload server for Go
• mp - A simple cli email parser. It currently takes stdin and outputs JSON.
• ngrok - Introspected tunnels to localhost.
• peco - Simplistic interactive filtering tool
• profile - Simple profiling support package for Go
• sqlx - provides a set of extensions on top of the excellent built-in database/sql package
• xlsx - Library to simplify reading the XML format used by recent version of Microsoft Excel in Go programs.

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.
• sawsij - lightweight, open-source web framework for building high-performance, data-driven web applications.
• 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.
• Packer - Packer is a tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
• 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.
• 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.
• Juju - Cloud-agnostic service deployment and orchestration - supports EC2, Azure, Openstack, MAAS and more.
• nsq - A realtime distributed messaging platform
• peg - Peg, Parsing Expression Grammar, is an implementation of a Packrat parser generator.
• Postman - Command-line utility for batch-sending email.
• syncthing - An open, decentralized file synchronization tool and protocol.
• Tenyks - Service oriented IRC bot using Redis and JSON for messaging.
• 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
• Intro to Programming in Go - An Introduction to Programming in Go