CodeTools

An overview of tools that will help improve your Go code

All-in-one

-gometalinter - Automates the installation, configuration and application of gofmt, golint, govet and several other code validation tools.

Code Formatting

• gofmt - Start with the standard Go code formatter
• golint - Detects style mistakes in Go code
• goimports - Format code and fix your import statements
• Formatting Go Code with gofmt

Code generation

• json-to-go - Generate Go structs from JSON.
• Go gen - Type-driven code generation (generics)
• gojson - Another Go struct generator.

Refactoring

• Refactoring with go fmt
• gorename - easy refactoring

Error Detection

• go vet - Read this first on how to use the go vet command.

Navigation

• go oracle - user manual - A tool for understanding Go code
• Pythia - A browser-based UI for the Go Oracle.

Visualization

• godegraph - A tool for generating dependency graphs of Go code.