Resources

Various links

• Slice tricks: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks
• Rest of the Golang Github Wiki: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki#additional-go-programming-…
• Spec - very approachable: https://golang.org/ref/spec
• Standard library source code - clean code with lots of idioms to learn from: https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.17.1:src/
• Uber Go Style Guide: https://github.com/uber-go/guide/blob/master/style.md
• Go Code Review Comments: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments
• 100 Go Coding Mistakes
• Alex Edwards - Author of good go-related content.
• Effective Error Handling in Go
• go 101

Gin Related

• How to handle DB access in Gin: https://www.alexedwards.net/blog/organising-database-access

ORM & Database

• GORM - cool Go ORM similar to active record.
• github.com/guregu/dynamo - good lib for dynamo DB access from Go.
• qmgo - Mongo driver for Go
• mongodb official go driver
• bun - SQL-first golang orm, SQL-agnostic
• ent

Frameworks

• gin
• Fiber - Inspired by Express
• gql-gen - GraphQL server implementation that is pleasant to work with.
• bud - fullstack svelte + go
• copper
• Echo
• Kago - Generates an admin dashboard
• aegis - Serverless go deploy tool + framework
• fuego - Inspired by Nest
• codoworks boilerplate
• huma

Auth Libs

• authelia
• ory
• casbin
• authn-server
• authboss
• go-pkgz auth

Other Tools

• Viper - Configuration loading
• rmq - Redis-backed message queue
• machinery - celery/sidekiq/bull-esque job queue
• liftbridge - kafka-lite message streams native to go
• graphql client lib
• pocketbase - crazy. something between auth0 and rails.
• wazero - run wasm modules in go.
• lingua - detect language with go
• pygolo - run python code with go, and vice versa.
• slog - go’s new (as of 2023) structured logging stdlib
• singleflight - dedupe things, like network requests happening in go routines
• failsafe.go - set of tools for robust go
• river - message queue based on go + postgres. created by former heroku architect.
• task - go-based alternative to Makefile
• BlueRPC - Go + Typescript type sharing