Favorite Golang

• Packages

  • HTTP
  • Cache
  • Logging
  • Testing
  • Utilities
  • Databases
  • Background tasks

• Tools

  • Linters
  • Editors
  • Network
  • Debugging
  • Development

• Resources

  • Media
  • Tutorials
  • Useful notes

Packages

HTTP

• chi - Router compatible with net/http
• huma - Micro framework for HTTP APIs with OpenAPI schema

Cache

• otter - High performance lockless cache

Logging

• slog - Structured and leveled logging

Testing

• testify - Toolkit for assertions and mocking
• fstest - FS and File implementations designed for tests
• httptest - Utilities for testing HTTP requests

Utilities

• do - Dependency injection toolkit
• lo - Lodash-style library (map, filter, contains, find...)
• mo - Monads and popular FP abstractions (Option, Result...)
• backoff - Exponential backoff algorithm

Databases

• redis - Redis client
• pgx - PostgreSQL driver
• clickhouse-go - ClickHouse driver
• ydb-go-sdk - YDB driver
• goose - A database migration tool
• hasql - Library for accessing multi-host SQL database installations

Background tasks

• pond - Minimalistic goroutine worker pool
• gocron - Job scheduling package which lets you run functions periodically

Tools

Linters

• golangci-lint - Go linters runner that includes a lot of linters

Editors

• Goland - IDE that contains everything you need for Go development
• VSCode Go - Extension for VSCode that provides rich support for Go

Network

• GoReplay - Network monitoring/recording/analysis/replaying tool

Debugging

• Delve - Simple, full featured debugging tool

Development

• gopls - Official Go language server
• goimports - Tool that updates imports

Resources

Media

• Reddit r/golang
• Twitter @golang
• Telegram @golang
• Telegram @golang_google [RU]

Tutorials

• A Tour of Go
• Learn Go with tests

Useful notes

• Constant errors
• Go _test packages
• Mutex or channels?
• Printing cheatsheet
• Formatting and parsing time
• Maps are not reference variables
• Proper package naming for testing