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Awesome Go

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

Awesome Go
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Web Frameworks

Full stack web frameworks.

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

Middlewares

negroni - Idiomatic HTTP Middleware for Golang
alice - Painless middleware chaining for Go
muxchain - Lightweight middleware for net/http

Template Engine

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

mustache - A Go implementation of the Mustache template language.
kasia.go - Templating system for HTML and other text documents - go implementation.
gold - Gold is a template engine for Go. This simplifies HTML coding in Go web application development. This is influenced by Slim and Jade.
Razor - Razor view engine for Golang.
pongo2 - A Django-like template-engine for Go.
Soy - Closure templates (aka Soy templates) for Go, following the official spec

Forms

Libraries for working with forms.

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

Authentication and OAuth

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

goauth - A Go library for doing header-based OAuth over HTTP or HTTPS. Mostly created for working with Twitter.
httpauth - HTTP Authentication middlewares.
osin - Golang OAuth2 server library.
jwt-go - Golang implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT).

Database

Databases implemented in Go.

tiedot - Your NoSQL database powered by Golang.
diskv - A home-grown disk-backed key-value store.
bolt - A low-level key/value database for Go.
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.
skydb.io - Sky is an open source database used for flexible, high performance analysis of behavioral data.

Database Drivers

Libraties for connecting and operating databases.

Relational Databases
- pq - Pure Go Postgres driver for 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.
- go-db - Generic database API for Go.
NoSQL Databases
- mgo - MongoDB driver for the Go language that implements a rich and well tested selection of features under a very simple API following standard Go idioms.
- redis - A simple, powerful Redis client for Go.
- redigo - Redigo is a Go client for the Redis database.
- Neo4j-GO - Neo4j REST Client in golang.
- gocouch - Couchdb client for Go.
- gomemcache - memcache client library for the Go programming language.

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.
mp - A simple cli email parser. It currently takes stdin and outputs JSON.

Messaging

Libraries that implement messaging systems

Uniqush-Push - A redis backed unified push service for server-side notifications to mobile devices

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.
Xorm - Simple and powerful ORM for Go.
upper.io/db - Single interface for interacting with different data sources through the use of adapters that wrap mature database drivers.

Imagery

Libraries for manipulating images.

img - A selection of image manipulation tools.
svgo - Go Language Library for SVG generation.
resize - Image resizing for the Go with common interpolation methods.
rez - Image resizing, functionality similar to resize
imaging - Simple Go image processing package.
go-webcolors - Port of webcolors library from Python to Go.

Text Processing

Specific Formats
- yaml - Implements a YAML 1.2 parser in Go.
- toml - TOML configuration format (encoder/decoder with reflection).
- go-pkg-xmlx - Extension to the standard Go XML package. Maintains a node tree that allows forward/backwards browsing and exposes some simple single/multi-node search functions.
- go-pkg-rss - This package reads RSS and Atom feeds and provides a caching mechanism that adheres to the feed specs.
- blackfriday - Markdown processor in Go
  - github_flavored_markdown - GitHub Flavored Markdown renderer in Go.
- bluemonday - HTML Sanitizer

Natural Language Processing

Libraries for working with human languages.

go-stem - Implementation of the porter stemming algorithm.
snowball - Snowball stemmer port (cgo wrapper) for Go. Provides word stem extraction functionality Snowball native.
paicehusk - Golang implementation of the Paice/Husk Stemming Algorithm
go-porterstemmer - A native Go clean room implementation of the Porter Stemming algorithm.
stemmer - Stemmer packages for Go programming language. Includes English and German stemmers.
porter - This is a fairly straighforward port of Martin Porter's C implementation of the Porter stemming algorithm.
golibstemmer - Go bindings for the snowball libstemmer library including porter 2
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.
textcat - A Go package for n-gram based text categorization, with support for utf-8 and raw text
go-eco - Similarity, dissimilarity and distance matrices; diversity, equitability and inequality measures; species richness estimators; coenocline models.
MMSEGO - This is a GO implementation of MMSEG which a Chinese word splitting algorithm.
gounidecode - Unicode transliterator (also known as unidecode) for Go
go-nlp - Utilities for working with discrete probability distributions and other tools useful for doing NLP work.

Science and Data Analysis

Libraries for scientific computing and data analyzing.

go.matrix - linear algebra for go
gocomplex - A complex number library for the Go programming language.
mudlark-go - A collection of packages providing (hopefully) useful code for use in software using Google's Go programming language.
gostat - A statistics library for the go language
gofrac - A (goinstallable) fractions library for go with support for basic arithmetic.
geom - 2D geometry for golang
blas - Implementation of BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms)
go-fn - Mathematical functions written in Go language, that are not covered by math pkg
go-gt - Graph theory algorithms written in "Go" language
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.

Machine Learning

Libraries for Machine Learning.

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

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

gocheck - A more advanced testing framework alternative to gotest.
GoConvey - BDD-ish, rspec inspirated testing framework, automatic testing, coverage report and web UI
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.
gomock - Mocking framework for the Go programming language.
mockhttp.go - Mock object for Go http.ResponseWriter
assert - Asserts to Go testing
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.
ginkgo - BDD Testing Framework for Go
Testify - A sacred extension to the standard go testing package.

Audio

Libraries for manipulating audio.

PortAudio - Go bindings for the PortAudio audio I/O library.
gosndfile - Go bindings for libsndfile.
go-sox - libsox bindings for go.

Video

Libraries for manipulating video.

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

Game Development

Awesome game development libraries.

GarageEngine - 2d game engine written in Go working on OpenGL.
fungo - Fun Unified Game library for te gO Programming language.
go-rpg - Go package for creating role playing games
terrago - Fractal terrain generator in Go.
rog - A roguelike game library written in go
glop - Glop (Game Library Of Power) is a fairly simple cross-platform game library.

Editor Plugins

Awesome plugins for editors.

vim-go - Go development plugin for Vim.
GoSublime - A Golang plugin collection for the text editor SublimeText 2 providing code completion and other IDE-like features.

GUI

Libraries for building GUI Applications

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

OpenGL

Libraries for using OpenGL in Go.

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

DevOps Tools

Software and libraries for DevOps.

Docker - An open platform for distributed applications for developers and sysadmins.
juju - Automate your cloud infrastructure
Go-AWS-Auth - AWS (Amazon Web Services) request signing library
tsuru - An extensible and open source Platform as a Service software.
Gogs - A Self Hosted Git Service in the Go Programming Language.
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.
gaudi - Gaudi automates the setup of isolated and decoupled dev environments.
fleet - A Distributed init System.
confd - Manage local application configuration files using templates and data from etcd or consul.
etcd - A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery.

Utilities

General utilities and tools to make you're life easier.

Postman - Command-line utility for batch-sending email.
Mora - REST server for accessing MongoDB documents and meta data
GVM - GVM provides an interface to manage Go versions.
godbg - Web-based gdb front-end application
Boom - Boom is a tiny program that sends some load to a web application.
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.

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.

Code Analysis and Linter

Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulation codebases.

GoLint - Golint is a linter for Go source code.

Code generation & ‘generics’

Tools for brining generics-like functionality to Go via code generation

gen - Code generation tool for ‘generics’-like functionality.
go-linq - .NET LINQ-like query methods for Go.
go generate - A proposed code generation syntax from Rob Pike.

Resources

Where to discover new Go libraries.

Websites

Go Projects - List of projects on the Go community wiki
godoc.org - Documentation for open source Go packages.
r/Golang - News about Go.
Trending Go repositories on GitHub today - Good place to find new Go libraries.
Flipboard - Go Magazine - A collection of Go articles and tutorials.

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