Awesome Go Tools

A curated list of awesome Go tools. Inspired by awesome-go

The most import is The go tools must be an command line tool, not lib

Contributing

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If you see a package or project here that is no longer maintained or is not a good fit, please submit a pull request to improve this file. Thank you!

Go Compile Helper

Libraries for package and dependency management.

• colorgo - A wrapper around go command for colorized go build output.
• gigo - PIP-like dependency tool for golang, with support for private repositories and hashes.
• 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.
• gopm - Go Package Manager
• gpm - Barebones dependency manager for Go.
• johnny-deps - Minimal dependency version using Git
• nut - Vendor Go dependencies
• panicparse - Groups similar goroutines and colorizes stack dump.
• VenGO - create and manage exportable isolated go virtual environments

Server Applications

• algernon - HTTP/2 web server with built-in support for Lua, Markdown, GCSS and Amber.
• Caddy - Caddy is an alternative, HTTP/2 web server that's easy to configure and use.
• consul - Consul is a tool for service discovery, monitoring and configuration.
• devd - A local webserver for developers
• etcd - A highly-available key value store for shared configuration and service discovery.
• nsq - A realtime distributed messaging platform
• yakvs - A small, networked, in-memory key-value store.

Text Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating texts.

Code Analysis

• doc - Go documentation tool that produces an alternative doc format.
• dupl - A tool for code clone detection.
• errcheck - Errcheck is a program for checking for unchecked errors in Go programs.
• gcvis - Visualise Go program GC trace data in real time.
• Go Metalinter - Metalinter is a tool to automatically apply all static analysis tool and report their output in normalized form.
• 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.
• goreturns - Adds zero-value return statements to match the func return types.
• gostatus - A command line tool, shows the status of repositories that contain Go packages.
• validate - Automatically validates struct fields with tags.

DevOps Tools

• aptly - aptly is a Debian repository management tool
• awsenv - a small binary that loads Amazon (AWS) environment variables for a profile
• Boom - Boom is a tiny program that sends some load to a web application.
• bosun - Time Series Alerting Framework
• dogo - Monitoring changes in the source file and automatically compile and run (restart).
• Dropship - A tool for deploying code via cdn.
• EasySSH - Golang package for easy remote execution through SSH and SCP downloading.
• Go Metrics - Go port of Coda Hale's Metrics library: https://github.com/codahale/metrics.
• go-selfupdate - Enable your Go applications to self update.
• gobrew - gobrew lets you easily switch between multiple versions of go.
• 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.
• gox - A dead simple, no frills Go cross compile tool.
• goxc - build tool for Go, with a focus on cross-compiling and packaging.
• hk - Heroku command-line interface in Go.
• kala - Simplistic, modern, and performant job scheduler.
• Mora - REST server for accessing MongoDB documents and meta data.
• ostent - collects and displays system metrics and optionally relays to Graphite and/or InfluxDB
• 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.
• s3gof3r - A small utility/library optimized for high speed transfer of large objects into and out of Amazon S3.
• [Vegeta] (https://github.com/tsenart/vegeta) - HTTP load testing tool and library. It's over 9000!
• webhook - Tool which allows user to create HTTP endpoints (hooks) that execute commands on the server
• Wide - A Web-based IDE for Teams using Golang.

Other Software

• boxed - Dropbox based blog engine
• 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.
• Comcast - Simulate bad network connections
• 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.
• fleet - A Distributed init System.
• Go Package Store - An app that displays updates for the Go packages in your GOPATH.
• gocc - Gocc is a compiler kit for Go written in Go.
• Gor - Http traffic replication tool, for replaying traffic from production to stage/dev environments in real-time.
• hugo - A Fast and Modern Static Website Engine
• Postman - Command-line utility for batch-sending email.